Led Zeppelin copyright case in hands of jury

A US jury will deliberate for a second day on Thursday on whether Led Zeppelin poached the opening to Stairway To Heaven from an obscure Los Angeles rock band.

Songwriting duo Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have denied plagiarizing the guitar introduction of their classic 1971 song from "Taurus," an instrumental track by the long-defunct 1960s group Spirit.

The case was brought before a federal court in Los Angeles by Michael Skidmore, the trustee and friend of Spirit guitarist Randy California, who drowned in 1997 having never taken legal action over the song.