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'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is now at the centre of a lawsuit, with Mariah Carey being sued for $20 million (£16 million).

While 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' may have debuted at number five and peaked at number two in the year of its release in 1994, the song has regularly entered the charts ever since. 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is now at the centre of a lawsuit, with Mariah Carey being sued for $20 million (£16 million). Mariah Carey is being sued by songwriter Andy Stone for at least $20 million due to her classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ having the same title as a different song he recorded years before.— Pop Base (@PopBase) pic.twitter.com/Z9FTOAV7Pt June 3, 2022

Songwriter Andy Stone has named both her and her co-writer Walter Afansieff in the lawsuit for £16m. In legal documents filed at the US District Court in the ...

The hit was released by Carey in 1994 as part of her album Merry Christmas and has gone on to be recognised as one of the most well-known festive hits. The documents, obtained by the PA news agency, state that Carey and her collaborators “knowingly, willfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign” to infringe Stone’s copyright for the song. Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her hit song 'All I Want for Christmas is You'.

Mariah Carey sued for £16m after being accused of copying hit song 'All I Want for Christmas is You'. Andy Stone alleges that the 1994 festive hit was taken ...

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Singer-songwriter-record producer Mariah Carey has been accused of plagiarism as a country music songwriter has claimed copyright infringement over 'All I Want ...

Pamela Koslyn, a Los Angeles attorney specializing in music and intellectual property rights, noted there are 177 works, many of them musical compositions, with 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' as the title. Last year, it became the first song to be a No. 1 hit in three separate runs on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Her version of the song came out in 1994 and has become a holiday staple on radio, streaming, and the NBA's annual slate of games on Christmas Day.

The singer, 53, released the track in 1994 as part of her album Merry Christmas, but she and her co-writer Walter Afansieff have been accused of copying the ...

This is so early in my life and my career,” but I’m so thankful that it did because it came out of a pure place.’ At first I doubted it too. The lawsuit, filed by Andy Stone at the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleges that the song was taken from one of the same name that he co-wrote for Vince Vance & the Valiants in 1989 and never gave permission for it to be used.

Songwriter Andy Stone claims he co-wrote hit in 1989 and has never given permission for it to be used.

They allege the defendants also committed “acts of unjust enrichment by the unauthorised appropriation of plaintiff’s work and the goodwill associated therewith”. Carey released the song in 1994 as part of her album Merry Christmas and it has gone on to be recognised as one of the most well-known festive hits. Mariah Carey is being sued for $20m (£16m) for alleged copyright infringement over her hit song All I Want for Christmas Is You.

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All I Want for Christmas is You is Vince Vance and the Valiants most successful song, having charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts on six separate occasions in the 1990s. One right, for example, might be the use of the work – so if someone owns a song, and another person uses that song (for example, in a film) without the owner’s permission, that’d be copyright infringement. More likely than not, Stone isn’t actually hoping to win – rather, he’s likely hoping to settle out of court. Stone is suing Carey for $20m (or £16m). Stone’s legal complaint argues that Carey, Afanasieff, and record label Sony Music Entertainment received “underserved profits” from the song. Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her 1994 song All I Want for Christmas is You.