Mariah Carey wins copyright dispute over ‘All I Need for Christmas Is You’
Mariah Carey obtained a motive to have fun as she gained the lawsuit.
Choose Monica Almadani dominated that there was not sufficient proof to help the declare that Carey copied their track.
“Defendants knew or should have known that All I Want for Christmas Is You could not be used in a musical work by Defendants without a license and/or songwriting credit, as is customary practice in the music industry,” the courtroom paperwork learn.
Stone and Powers sought $20 million in damages and a jury trial, however the courtroom discovered their case —claiming Carey’s model of the track imitated the “compositional structure” of their ballad— inadequate to proceed.
Notably, this wasn’t the primary time Carey’s 1994 hit track confronted such a lawsuit.
