{"id":369239,"date":"2025-12-25T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369239\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:41:05","slug":"mariah-carey-awarded-over-92k-from-dismissal-of-christmas-song-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369239\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey awarded over $92K from dismissal of Christmas song case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit filed against the singer earlier this year, Mariah Carey was recently awarded over $92,000 to go towards her legal fees in the case. <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Andy Stone of Louisiana and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey\u2019s 1994 song, which has since become a holiday standard and annual streaming sensation, infringed the copyright of their country 1989 song with the same title.<\/p>\n<p>They were seeking $20 million in damages and a trial by jury, but a federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed the case in March, stating it lacked evidence. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/mariah-carey-didnt-steal-her-hit-song-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-judge-rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey didn&#8217;t steal her hit song &#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&#8217; judge rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Stone and Powers have been ordered to pay Carey and other defendants in the case. <\/p>\n<p>This comes as Carey&#8217;s hit Christmas song has broken more records, spending more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than any song in history, hitting its 20th week atop the chart.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1993, the song didn\u2019t reach No. 1 until 2019, thanks to the rise of music streaming. It has returned to the top spot every year since.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/entertainment\/music\/mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-sets-new-record-with-20-weeks-at-no-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey\u2019s \u2018All I Want for Christmas Is You\u2019 sets new record with 20 weeks at No. 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit filed against the singer earlier this year, Mariah Carey was recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-369239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}