Mariah Carey successfully got a lawsuit accusing her of ripping off the lyrics and melody of another song for her hit holiday track All I Want For Christmas Is You, with a judge finding 'an absence of evidence' to support allegations the songstress copied her tune from another. Carey, 55, was accused of copying Troy Powers and Andy Stone's 1989 song - which is also named All I Want For Christmas Is You - in a 2023 lawsuit, in which they alleged her 1994 holiday track was similar to their...

• A judge dismissed Andy Stone’s $20M lawsuit against Mariah Carey, claiming her 1994 song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” copied his 1989 track. Despite sharing a title, the songs were ruled musically distinct, and the court found no evidence to support Stone’s claims. • The court imposed sanctions on Stone’s legal team, criticizing them for failing to ensure factual contentions had evidentiary support. • While Stone may appeal the ruling, Carey has put the legal battle behind her, and her song remains a holiday classic. A judge...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You" from other songwriters. Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani granted Carey's request for summary judgment on Wednesday, giving her and co-writer and co-defendant Walter Afanasieff a victory without going to trial. In 2023, songwriters Andy Stone of Louisiana — who goes by the stage name Vince Vance — and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey's 1994 song, which has since become a...

In 2023, two songwriters filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging Carey's 1994 song infringed the copyright of their country 1989 song with the same title. LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You" from other songwriters. In 2023, songwriters Andy Stone of Louisiana — who goes by the stage name Vince Vance — and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey's 1994 song, which has since...

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 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...

A federal judge has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey‘s smash hit “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Country singer and songwriter Vince Vance previously alleged that Carey had ripped off his band Vance & the Valiants’ 1988 Christmas jingle of the same name, but Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected his allegations, in a Wednesday ruling, citing evidence from a musicologist that the two tracks were “different” and shared “commonplace Christmas song clichés,” found in many other songs. The judge reported that plaintiffs Vince, whose real name is...