Mariah Carey faces “All I Want For Christmas Is You” copyright infringement lawsuit

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Mariah Carey has been accused of copyright infringement over her 1994 holiday staple "All I Want For Christmas Is You." The lawsuit was brought by Andy Stone a.k.a Vince Vance, a songwriter who claims Carey's song lifts significant elements from a song of the same name released in 1989 by his group Vince Vance & the Valiants.

Stone first filed the lawsuit in 2022 before withdrawing it, as Billboard reports. The new claim, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court, argues that Carey's song closely mirrors Stone's.

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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.” Carey and "All I Want" co-writer Walter Afanasieff have offered competing versions of how the song was created.