Posted on 03/21/2025 10:40:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
March 20 (Reuters) - Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from a country song of the same name.
U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling, opens new tab on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance and the Valiants' "All I Want for Christmas Is You" failed to show their song was objectively similar enough to Carey's to support their copyright infringement case.
Attorneys for the songwriters, lawyers for Carey and spokespeople for her label, Sony Music (6758.T), opens new tab, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the decision on Thursday.
Vince Vance and the Valiants' "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was released in 1989 and reached the Billboard country charts during holiday seasons in the 1990s. Carey's song appeared on her 1994 album "Merry Christmas" and has since become a popular standard, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart every holiday season since 2019.
Andy Stone, who performs as Vince Vance, and co-writer Troy Powers filed the lawsuit in 2023. They said Carey's song copied their song's "extended comparison between a loved one and trappings of seasonal luxury" and other lyrical and musical elements, requesting at least $20 million in damages.
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In before the ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ haters.
I’ve listened to both songs, they are completely different.
Same title (You can’t copyright a title), same subject matter, but different tempo and style.
One is Country Music style, and the other is Pop music style.
I have met Vince and the Valiants and even sang part of a song with him one time.
But they didn’t have a case. Two songs shared the same name, and that’s all...............
>> I’ve listened to both songs, they are completely different.
+1
Internet says she makes $5 million a year from that song from all the radio, streaming, malls, restaurants and bars that play her song between thanksgiving and new years. Just that one song. Who knows besides her and her accountants what she makes per year from everything else she does in life. Which is fine by me I’m not jealous I just gotta write my own!
Maybe someday now that she won this suit she will license it to Elmer’s, something like “all I want for Christmas is glue”. Or to Glidden “all I want for Christmas is Hue”. Or to Macy’s “all I want for Christmas is shoes!”
Mariah has been aware of her singing and entertainment skills at least since she was a teenager. Her first professional recording impressed and amazed the producers who were hearing her for the first time.
The recording was ‘I Had A Vision “.
Hell is not an eternity of fire or torture, or demons ripping you apart.
The worst possible thing that could happen if you died and went to hell, is to be strapped into a chair, and forced to listen to that God forsaken Christmas song on repeat for eternity.
the Carey song is from 1994, the first lawsuit was filed in 2022.
Why is there a 28 year delay?
I made it to the one minute mark of the “so called” similar song.
It’s either country..ish or 50’s drive in music.
Not even in the same universe of Mariah Carey. Not that I’m a fan.
I think she is all kinds of Hawt and extraordinary vocalist.
The gal singing their “whatever’ has an annoying hold on of her vibrato....
Vince Vance and the Valiants is far better.
Mariah’s version is irritating.
You know I’m getting really bored
‘Cause all songs have the same damn chords
Punk music is a joke
it’s really just Baroque
Am I just paranoid,
na na na
Pachelbel Rant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM&t=10s
I love the Mariah Carey song. Well, like a lot.
Plus she’s really hot and she I dont recall her saying anything political which means if she did, at least it’s not that often.
She is nuttier than a squirrel turd.
Don’t know how she can copyright it....It was said a million times before she used it...
“...failed to show their song was objectively similar enough to Carey’s to support their copyright infringement case.”
What about the name and sentiment?
The judge is stupid or a crook.
The country version is better, better voice.
Well, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
UR a genius!
The possibilities are endless!
"All I want for Christmas is brew" ~ Guinness
"All I want for Christmas is chew" ~ Red Man
"All I want for Christmas is dew" ~ Tullamore Dew
"All I want for Christmas is ewe" ~ muslim outreach
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I think you meant “Vision of Love”. Watch the video on YT. She certainly did have talents. Some of the not vocal.
All I want for Kung is Fu
The sad part is that now every Xmas season will drown us on TV and retail stores with hours and hours of that pitiful song.
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