


“It’s classic trademark bullying,” Tompros says. But to me, Mary is the Queen of Christmas.” And let’s face it, you know, everybody’s faith is what it is. “‘I’m someone that loves Christmas, that happened to be blessed to write ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You.’ And a lot of other Christmas songs. “That was other people, and I just want to humbly say that I don’t consider myself that,” she told the Zoe Bell Breakfast Show in the U.K. In an interview Carey did as recently in late 2021, she again resisted it. Meanwhile, Chan’s declaration to the trademark appeals board points out that Carey has said in interviews that she doesn’t want the title. But it really picked up when the New Yorker profiled her in 2018 with the simple headline: “The Queen of Christmas.” The article described Chan as many others before and since have, as “America’s most successful, and perhaps only, full-time Christmas-song singer-slash-composer.”

She says the first time the media used it for her was when “All Access” applied it in 2014, a few years into her 11-year recording career. It’s crazy - it would have that breadth of registration.”Ĭhan started to be called “queen of Christmas” in the press before she adopted it herself and used it for a 2021 album title. If you knit a ‘queen of Christmas’ sweater, you should be able to sell it on Etsy to somebody else so they can buy it for their grandma. “She’s trying to trademark this in every imaginable way - clothing, liquor products, masks, dog collars - it’s all over the map. “And it’s not just about the music business,” Chan continues. It’s meant to be shared it’s not meant to be owned. “And I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity. “Christmas has come way before any of us on earth, and hopefully will be around way after any of us on earth,
#MARIAH CARET TRIAL#
Tompros, of Boston-based WilmerHale - spoke with Variety over the weekend and shared the argument they are making to the trademark trial and appeal board to stop Carey in her snow tracks.
#MARIAH CARET TV#
(Love’s association with Christmas music actually stretches to almost six decades, and snowballed as Letterman had her on his program to sing the classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” every year from 1986 through 2014, a tradition that has subsequently been carried on on other TV programs.)Ĭhan and her lawyer - Louis W. I’ve been in the business for 52 years, have earned it and can still hit those notes! If Mariah has a problem call David or my lawyer!!”
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/MCarey2006Grammys-58b8a2775f9b58af5c41789c.jpg)
“What does that mean, that I can’t use that title? David Letterman officially declared me the Queen of Christmas 29 years ago, a year before she released ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’ and at 81 years of age I’m NOT changing anything. “Is it true that Mariah Carey trademarked ‘Queen of Christmas’?” wrote Love. Love caught wind of Chan’s possibly impending court battle with Carey, and spoke out Monday with her own outrage over the pop superstar looking to legally own the term. Chan’s attorney filed a formal declaration of opposition to Carey’s trademark claim Friday.
