Songwriter Jake Holmes has filed litigation surrounding the song's use in the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary.

Holmes wrote and recorded "Dazed and Confused" in 1967, and Page allegedly heard the tune in August of that year after the singer-songwriter opened for the Yardbirds in Greenwich Village (the track also appeared on Holmes' 1967 album,

Jimmy Page, Sony Pictures Classics, Warner Chappell, and others are facing a copyright suit centering on “Dazed and Confused,” which allegedly appeared in Becoming Led Zeppelin without the original songwriter’s authorization.