By Bill Donahue This is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from ... s “Not Like Us”; Mariah Carey wins a copyright lawsuit over “All I Want For Christmas Is You”; and ...

(AP) - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did ... the writers employed common Christmas cliches that existed prior to both songs, and that Carey’s song used them differently.

(AP) - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is ... on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart the past six years in a row — ...

By Gil Kaufman Mariah Carey is taking ... her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” rejecting claims from songwriter Vince Vance that Carey and others allegedly stole key elements ...