Songwriter drops £17.8m copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey for Christmas hit

A $20m case against the All I Want for Christmas Is You singer for copyright infringement will not proceed A lawsuit filed against Mariah Carey in June, alleging that her juggernaut 1994 Christmas single All I Want for Christmas Is You infringed on the copyright of Mississippi songwriter Andy Stone, has been dropped, Rolling Stone reports. In his initial filing, Stone alleged that Carey and Walter Afanasieff, her co-writer on the track, had "knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally" infringed upon...