Everyone really enjoyed the hit holiday single by Mariah Carey, it has added color to the holiday seasons since it’s release in 1994.
The five time Grammy award winning star definitely did not see this coming 28 years later.
Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement on the song by Andy Stone.The song was part of her 1994 album titled Merry Christmas.
All I want for Christmas was co-written by Walter Afansieff .Merry Christmas was released by Columbia Records on November 1 1994 and became the best-selling US Christmas album of all time, selling more than 15 million copies worldwide.
Andy Stone has slammed Mariah Carey and Walter Afansieff with a lawsuit and is demanding a whooping sum of £16 for copyright infringement.
In legal documents filed at the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, Mr Stone claims that he co-wrote the song in 1989 and has never given permission for it to be used.
The documents, obtained by the PA news agency, state that Carey and her collaborators “knowingly, willfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign” to infringe Stone’s copyright for the song.
They added the defendants had also committed “acts of unjust enrichment by the unauthorised appropriation of plaintiff’s work and the goodwill associated therewith”.
All i want for Christmas is still enjoying numerous downloads every festive season and doesn’t seem to get old but now it’s most likely it’s about to cost Mariah Carey £16 million.
