{"id":5646,"date":"2025-05-05T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-faces-new-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:08:16","slug":"led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-faces-new-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-faces-new-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Faces New ‘Dazed and Confused’ Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tM<\/span>ore than a decade after Led Zeppelin\u2018s Jimmy Page settled a lawsuit over the disputed songwriting credits to \u201cDazed and Confused,\u201d he\u2019s facing a new case accusing him of flouting that earlier agreement.<\/p>\n

\n\tJake Holmes has claimed for years that he actually wrote \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d and that Page simply performed it without credit or payment \u2014 first as a member of The Yardbirds, and then more famously by re-working it into a signature song for Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat dispute led to a copyright lawsuit in 2010 and a later settlement. The terms of that deal were not disclosed, though later credits for Zeppelin\u2019s track say the song was \u201cwritten Jimmy Page, inspired by Jake Holmes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in a new case filed Monday (May 5) in Los Angeles federal court, Holmes says Page is once again violating copyright law by failing to credit or pay him \u2014 on both newly-released recordings of Yardbirds performances of the song and in the recent documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBy falsely claiming that the Holmes composition is the Page composition, \u2026 Page [and others] have willfully infringed the Holmes composition,\u201d Holmes\u2019 lawyers write. \u201cDefendants\u2026have ignored plaintiff\u2019s cease and desist demand and continue to infringe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHolmes says he wrote and recorded \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d in 1967, and he believes Page first heard it during a performance in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village at which Holmes opened for The Yardbirds. He says that band later started performing the song and, after they broke up, Page used it as the basis for the Zeppelin song of the same name \u2014 one of the legendary rock band\u2019s best-known hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Holmes, the settlement in the earlier lawsuit included a provision in which Page acknowledged he had \u201cno claim whatsoever to or with respect to the Holmes composition.\u201d But in recent years, he says archival Yardbirds recordings have been released that feature the song \u2014 a move he says clearly violates his rights to the original.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolmes says Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/em>, released in February, also infringes his copyrights by featuring footage of live performances of the song: \u201cDefendants have thus committed multiple acts of willful infringement by continuing to use the Holmes composition without authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA representative for Page did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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