Jake Holmes has reached a settlement in his latest lawsuit over “Dazed and Confused” that “resolves the entire case”, according to a legal filing made on August 1.
A document filed by Holmes’ lawyer claims that “a settlement has been reached that resolves the entire case.”
“The parties are in the process of finalizing a written settlement agreement and anticipate filing a stipulated dismissal of the action with prejudice within thirty (30) days,” the filing continued.
Holmes filed the lawsuit in California on May 5, accusing Jimmy Page, Warner Chappell Music, Sony Pictures and the filmmakers behind “Becoming Led Zeppelin” of failing to properly credit him for “Dazed and Confused”, copyright infringement and for allegedly using the song in “Becoming Led Zeppelin” without his permission.
The complaint accused Page and others of failing to comply with a 2011 settlement reached following an earlier lawsuit Holmes filed in 2010.
Now, it seems Holmes has again reached a settlement with Page over the authorship of “Dazed And Confused”.
Holmes’ lawyer Daniel A. Johnson declined to comment. A spokesperson for Page did not respond to a request for comment.
The August 1 filing is embedded below:
Jake Holmes 2025 lawsuit – Notice of Settlement of Entire Action by James Cook on Scribd
Whatever happened to the ‘documents’ that stated that when Jake Holmes first heard Led Zeppelin’s (Yardbirds) version of Dazed and Confused, he was so impressed that he apparently said, “What the hell, let ’em have it”?
yeh let them have it then holmes relished millionare page was getting richer and he was getting poor so i want my slice of cake out of this crap song ive writtern which page made into a iconic classic maybe holmes owes more to page than page does to him