{"id":7195,"date":"2025-08-01T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-settles-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:21:20","slug":"led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-settles-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-settles-dazed-and-confused-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin\u2019s Jimmy Page Settles \u2018Dazed and Confused\u2019 Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tLed Zeppelin\u2018s Jimmy Page and a songwriter have reached a settlement to resolve the latest lawsuit over the disputed credits to the band\u2019s iconic song \u201cDazed and Confused,\u201d according to new court filings.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe agreement, filed in court Friday (Aug. 1), will quickly end a copyright case filed this spring by Jake Holmes, a songwriter who has claimed for years that he actually wrote \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d and that Page simply performed it without credit or payment.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTerms of the deal were not disclosed in public filings, other than to say that it \u201cresolves the entire case\u201d and will be formalized in the weeks ahead. Notice of the settlement was filed by attorneys for Holmes and was not signed by lawyers for Page or other defendants.<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Page did not return a request for comment. An attorney for Holmes declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolmes wrote and recorded \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d in 1967; Page later reworked it into a song for his band The Yardbirds, then into the famed 1969 Zeppelin track. Decades later, in 2010, Holmes filed a copyright lawsuit against Page. That case quickly settled, and the credits for Zeppelin\u2019s track now say it was \u201cwritten Jimmy Page, inspired by Jake Holmes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in May, Holmes sued Page again, accusing the legendary rocker of flouting that earlier agreement and violating his rights. The case centered on newly released recordings of Yardbirds performances and 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\tThe case against Page was still in the earliest stages, and he and the various other defendants (which also included music publisher Warner Chappell and film studio Sony Pictures) had not yet formally responded to the accusations with court filings of their own.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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