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‘Stairway to Heaven’ judges are asked to give songwriters a break

Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs the basis for a case of infringement - the unlawful reproduction of copyrighted work. That likeness in chords or melody in ...