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Mariah Carey Wins Ruling Dismissing Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Mariah Carey won a court ruling dismissing a copyright lawsuit over her perennial holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas is You."

“Plaintiffs have not met their burden of showing that [the songs by] Carey and Vance are substantially similar under the extrinsic test,” Ramírez Almadani wrote, using the legal term for how courts assess such allegations. Calling it “egregious” conduct that aimed to “cause unnecessary delay and needlessly increase the costs of litigation,” the judge ordered that Vance and his lawyers to repay the legal bills Carey incurred defending those arguments. Vance’s attorneys submitted their own expert reports supporting his allegations, but the judge rejected them as evidence – saying that one was “not based on sufficient facts or data” and was “not the product of reliable principles and methods” as required by existing legal precedents.

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