{blackbabes} Mariah Carey Wins Copyright Case Over Christmas Hit

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Mariah Carey's festive song All I Want For Christmas Is You is one of the bestselling Yuletide tracks of the last 30 years.

Now she has been cleared of any copyright infringement in a U.S. court ruling made Wednesday.

BBC News reports that songwriter Adam Stone alleged that Carey, who released her song in 1994, "exploited his popularity and style" after his song with the same name was released five years before, recorded under his performing name of Vince Vance (and the Valiants). He claimed at least $20 million in damages.

Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani accepted expert testimony that the two songs shared "Christmas song cliches," and that Stone and his team had not met their burden "of showing the songs were substantially similar."

In rejecting Stone's case, the judge also imposed sanctions for filing "frivolous" arguments and ordered that Stone and his lawyers pay Carey's legal bills.

The BBC reports that, in her 2020 memoir, Carey wrote she had composed "most of the song on a cheap little Casio keyboard," while playing the movie It's a Wonderful Life for inspiration, before completing it in the studio with her co-writer Walter Afanasieff.

Carey's song is one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time, reported to earn its writers approximately $8.5 million every year.

It has spent 140 weeks in the UK's top 100 music chart, and is estimated to have made approximately $100 million since its release. It was the lead single from Carey's fourth studio album, and in 2023 was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.

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{blackbabes} Precious Way & Jalyn Hall Round Out Series-Regular Cast In NBC’s Tracy Morgan Comedy Pilot

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Precious Way (Heist 88) and Jalyn Hall (Till) have joined the cast of Tracy Morgan's untitled NBC comedy pilot from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and writer Sam Means.

Written by Carlock and Means, the comedy stars Morgan as Reggie, a disgraced former football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image.

The pair joins previously announced cast members Erika Alexander as Monica, Reggie's childhood sweetheart from Brooklyn who co-parents with him and still is his agent and business manager, even though they divorced years ago; Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie's mansion to film an immersive documentary about the former star running back; and Bobby Moynihan as Gator, Reggie's loyal former teammate who has always stuck with him even when things went sideways.

Also in series-regular roles, Way will portray Brina, Reggie's loving and supportive fiancée who sees the documentary as an opportunity to advance her stardom; Hall will portray Carmelo, Reggie and Monica's son, a high schooler who has grown up in the shadow of Reggie's football career.

Carlock, Means and Morgan executive produce with Fey, Eric Gurian and David Miner. Rhys Thomas is executive producer and director of the pilot only. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Fey, Carlock and Means are under overall deals, produces with Little Stranger, Bevel Gears and 3 Arts.

Way starred in the Showtime original film Heist 88, opposite Courtney B. Vance. She also had a recurring role as the daughter of Naomi (Brandy) on the ABC musical drama series Queens. Additionally, Way played the lead role in the AllBlk half-hour comedy Partners in Rhyme, opposite MC Lyte, and starred in the horror-thriller You're Not Alone. She is repped by Buchwald and Zero Gravity Management.

For his performance in the film Till, starring alongside Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg, Hall received an NAACP Image Award, a Critics Choice Award nomination and an African American Film Critics Association Award. He recently appeared in the Peacock limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Hart. Additional TV credits include playing a young Martin Luther King Jr. in the Emmy-nominated Genius: MLK/X, the Hulu/Onyx feature Bruiser, Disney+'s The Crossover, and the CW series All American. His film credits include Space Jam 2, Shaft, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Outlaw Johnny Black and All Day and Night. He is repped by Artist Collective Entertainment and Luber Roklin Entertainment.

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