Jimmy Page Is Back in Court Again Over ‘Dazed and Confused’

Jake
Holmes
is
suing

Jimmy
Page
again
over
songwriting
credit
for

Led
Zeppelin‘s “Dazed
and
Confused.”
He’s
named
the
Sony
Pictures
film
studio
as
one
of
several
co-defendants,
after
noticing
that
the
track
was
miscredited
in
the


Becoming
Led
Zeppelin
documentary.

The

complaint
was
filed
in
California
federal
court
and
alleges
copyright
infringement
and
breach
of
contract.
Holmes
claims
that
two
early
live
recordings
of
the
song
were
included
in
the
movie
without
permission
or
payment.

Page
and
his
co-defendants “willfully
infringed
the
Holmes
composition
by
falsely
claiming
that
the
Holmes
composition
is
the
Page
composition,”
according
to
the
suit, “by
purporting
to
license
use
in
the
film
of
the
Holmes
composition
as
if
it
was
the
Page
composition,
and
by
collecting
license
fees
for
use
of
the
Holmes
composition
in
the
film.”

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Holmes
said
an
earlier
cease-and-desist
order
had
been
ignored.
He’d
originally
filed
a

copyright
infringement
suit
in
2011
after
Page
took
sole
credit
for
the
song
over
a
period
of
decades,
first
with
the

Yardbirds
and
then
with
Led
Zeppelin.
Page’s
Yardbirds
bandmate
Jim
McCarty
said
they
first
heard
Holmes’
original
when
he
opened
for
the
group.

“‘Dazed
and
Confused’
is
a
song
with
a
great
rock ‘n’
roll
story,”
McCarty

said
in
2013. “We
played
with
Jake
Holmes
in
New
York
when
we
had
the
last
lineup
—
Jimmy,
Keith
[Relf],
Chris
[Dreja]
and
myself
—
and
were
looking
for
songs,
as
a
lot
of
the
group’s
creative
chemistry
had
suffered
after
Paul
[Samwell-Smith]
and

Jeff
[Beck]
had
gone.

“I
wandered
backstage
to
watch
the
support
act
and
heard
some
quite
pleasant
folky
songs,”
McCarty
added. “Then
they
played
this
song
in
a
minor
key
with
a
very
haunting
guitar
run
down,
and
I
immediately
thought
it
would
suit
us.
I
went
down
to
a
record
store
in
Greenwich
Village,
bought
Jake’s
album,
and
we
worked
out
our
version
—
later
to
be
recorded
by
Zeppelin,
becoming
one
of
the
classics
of
all
time.”

Holmes’
complaint
added
that
Page
has
released
several
other
live
versions
of “Dazed
and
Confused”
without
proper
credit
or
payment,
including
on

Yardbirds ’68,

Live
at
the
BBC
Revisited,
and

The
Yardbirds:
The
Ultimate
Live
at
the
BBC,
among
others.
He’s
requesting
damages
of
at
least
$150,000
per
instance
of
copyright
infringement.

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