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Judge dismisses copyright suit against Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You
Country singer Vince Vance had alleged Carey copied his band’s 1988 Christmas tune of the same name
In one report, a New York University professor, Lawrence Ferrara, testified that he had found “at least 19 songs” that incorporated the same lyrical ideas that had been released before Vance’s track. The judge also called Vance and his lawyers’ conduct “egregious” and said they caused “unnecessary delay” and “needlessly” increased the costs of litigation, including through “incomprehensible mixtures of factual assertions and conclusions, subjective opinions, and other irrelevant evidence”. He claimed that his original track received “extensive airplay” during the 1993 holiday season – a year before Carey released her now huge hit.
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