{"id":38945,"date":"2022-06-06T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:56:58","slug":"mariah-carey-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Sued for Copyright Infringement over &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote class=\"deck-quote\"><p>Scrooge, is that you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Published Jun 06, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Not since being stolen by the Grinch has the spirit of Christmas as we know it been under such immense threat: angel tree-topper personified Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her definitive festive banger &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Songwriter Andy Stone, known artistically as Vince Vance of country pop band Vince Vance &#038; the Valiants, filed the lawsuit in New Orleans federal court on Friday (June 3) [via <em>NBC News<\/em>].  Stone alleges that he co-wrote a song of the same title five years prior to the release of Carey&#8217;s holiday classic in 1994, as part of her <em>Merry Christmas<\/em> album.  (It should be noted that song titles are generally considered public domain and don&#8217;t fall within the protection of copyright law.)<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s seeking at least $ 20 million USD in damages &#8211; from the queen of Christmas herself, as well as her co-writer Walter Afanasieff and Sony Music &#8211; for copyright infringement and misappropriation, alongside additional claims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, Stone&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; was released in 1989 but received &#8220;extensive airplay&#8221; during the holiday season of 1993 and &#8220;began making appearances on the Billboard Music Charts.&#8221;  The lawsuit alleges that Carey and co.  &#8220;never sought or obtained permission&#8221; from him and co-writer Troy Powers to use, reproduce or distribute the song, which the document argues was &#8220;copyrightable subject matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, song titles aren&#8217;t copyrightable &#8211; but the subject matter of only wanting you for Christmas is, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the self-proclaimed &#8220;one &#038; only original version&#8221; of &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; below.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All I Want for Christmas is You, the one &amp; only original version written by Troy Powers\/Vince Vance\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DY1Z6e3nFjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Carey may have near perfect pitch as a singer, but her first pitch landed among baseball&#8217;s worst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrooge, is that you? Published Jun 06, 2022 Not since being stolen by the Grinch has the spirit of Christmas as we know it been under such immense threat: angel tree-topper personified Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her definitive festive banger &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You.&#8221; Songwriter Andy Stone, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariah-carey-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mariah Carey Sued for Copyright Infringement over &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221;<\/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":[310,146,17941],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/exclaim.ca\/images\/mariah_carey_all_i_want_for_christmas_is_you.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38945"}],"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=38945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}