{"id":150496,"date":"2022-11-17T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/court-rules-mariah-carey-is-not-the-queen-of-christmas\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:41:00","slug":"mariah-carey-not-the-queen-of-christmas-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/mariah-carey-not-the-queen-of-christmas-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Not the Queen Of Christmas: Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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People immediately think of Mariah Carey when they see the first snowflake for the year. The Queen of Christmas is the name that Mariah Carey is best known for, but a court recently rejected her bid to trademark the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carey Wants It \u2018Queen of Christmas\u2019Crown<\/h2>\n

Carey\u2019s biggest song is the holiday hit \u201cAll I Want for Christmas is You.\u201dThe song has been sold more than 16 million times worldwide and is certified Diamond by RIAA (the only holiday tune to have this honor). Carey has also received a reported $60 Million in royalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong>Mariah Carey to be Crowned the \u2018Queen Of Christmas\u2019Trademark<\/p>\n

Carey has made Christmas synonymous with Christmas, and Carey wanted to make it official. Last year Carey filed a trademark request for the phrase. \u201cQueen of Christmas.\u201dShe also tried to trademark this abbreviation \u201cQOC,\u201dAlso available: \u201cPrincess Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her Trademark Application Was Rejected<\/h2>\n

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has officially rejected Carey’s application. Carey was denied the title for one reason. She nor her company\u2014through which she filed the application\u2014did not respond to opposition from another singer.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Chan, who was awarded the \u201cQueen of Christmas\u201dTitle by The New Yorker <\/em>In 2018, put out holiday albums every single year. She challenged Carey\u2019s application and blasted the pop star for trying to \u201cmonopolize\u201d Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just not the right thing to do,\u201d Chan said Variety<\/em><\/a>. \u201cChristmas is for everyone. It\u2019s meant to be shared; it\u2019s not meant to be owned.\u201d <\/p>\n

Since Carey and her team did not respond to Chan\u2019s challenge in time, the \u201cQueen of Christmas\u201dAnyone can use the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Darlene Love Said She Had \u2018Earned\u2019The Title<\/h2>\n

Chan isn\u2019t the only singer who has criticized Carey\u2019s quest to be crowned the Queen of Christmas. Darlene Love, most famous for her holiday hit \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home),\u201dIt has been called the \u201cQueen of Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong>Mariah Carey’s Twinning with Her Daughter Monroe is a Huge Hit With Fans<\/p>\n

She posted the following Facebook message:<\/a>, \u201cDavid Letterman officially declared me the Queen of Christmas 29 years ago, a year before [Carey] released \u2018All I want For Christmas Is You\u2019 and at 81 years of age I\u2019m NOT changing anything. I\u2019ve 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!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Carey might not actually own the property. \u201cQueen of Christmas\u201d title, but there are plenty of people around the world who think of her first when it\u2019s time to start celebrating the holidays.<\/p>\n

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People immediately think of Mariah Carey when they see the first snowflake for the year. The Queen of Christmas is the name that Mariah Carey is best known for, but a court recently rejected her bid to trademark the title.\u00a0 Carey Wants It \u2018Queen of Christmas\u2019Crown Carey\u2019s biggest song is the holiday hit \u201cAll I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":150497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Court-Rules-Mariah-Carey-Is-Not-The-Queen-Of-Christmas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150498,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150496\/revisions\/150498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}