{"id":37251,"date":"2022-06-05T04:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T04:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T04:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T04:21:57","slug":"mariah-carey-sued-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Sued Over &#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>A songwriter is suing Mariah Carey for copyright infringement over &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The songwriter, Andy Stone, says he released a song by the same name five years earlier.<\/li>\n<li>Song titles are typically not protected by copyright laws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"morning_news\" data-list=\"Insider Today\" data-acq-source=\"newsinlinesignup\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>Loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>A Mississippi songwriter has sued pop star Mariah Carey over her 1994 Christmas hit, &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You,&#8221; saying he released a song with the same title five years earlier, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>The songwriter, Andy Stone, from the group Vince Vance &#038; the Valiants, alleged in a civil complaint that Carey and Sony Music Entertainment &#8220;never sought or obtained permission&#8221; from Stone to use the title.  He also accused Carey and Sony Music Entertainment of &#8220;knowingly, willfully, and intentionally&#8221; infringing upon his work by lei.<\/p>\n<p>Stone filed his lawsuit in federal court in Louisiana.  The complaint did not specify when Stone learned of Carey&#8217;s version of the song, which resurfaces every holiday season and has hit No. 1 on Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100 singles chart for the last three years. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit said Stone at some point &#8220;became aware&#8221; of Carey&#8217;s &#8220;use of his work&#8221; and retained lawyers who contacted the defendants in April of 2021. <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants - All I Want for Christmas Is You\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8HWHd0EYJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sony Music Entertainment, which owns the record label that represented Carey at the time of the song&#8217;s release, did not immediately respond to Insider&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how successful Stone&#8217;s litigation will be.  Song titles are typically not protected by copyright laws, and it is highly common for multiple songs by different artists to share a name. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, the title &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221; is shared by dozens of other songs and musical compositions listed in the US Copyright Office&#8217;s public catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Stone&#8217;s lawsuit did not allege any other similarities between his and Carey&#8217;s songs beyond the titles.  The lyrics of both songs, though thematically similar, share only the titular refrain, &#8220;all I want for Christmas is you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Insider&#8217;s Debanjali Rose reported last year, &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221; is one of Carey&#8217;s most celebrated, beloved, and critically acclaimed hits, and has earned her more than $ 60 million in royalties since its release nearly three decades ago.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A songwriter is suing Mariah Carey for copyright infringement over &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You.&#8221; The songwriter, Andy Stone, says he released a song by the same name five years earlier. Song titles are typically not protected by copyright laws. Loading Something is loading. A Mississippi songwriter has sued pop star Mariah Carey &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mariah Carey Sued Over &#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/629c0dd63efa8c0019aada1b?width=1200&format=jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}