Two holiday singers objected toMariah Carey's attempt to become a 'Christmas Queen'.
Last year, Carey, 53, and her legal team filed to register the term "Christmas Queen" as a trademark for her exclusive use. Music, scents and alcohol.
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On Friday, singer Elizabeth Chan (who only plays Christmas music year-round) filed a legal challenge to the Federal Trademark Office seeking to block Carey's filing.
Carey has not publicly responded to Chan's lawsuit.
Chan claims she has also been called "Christmas Queen" throughout her career. Among them is the New Yorker magazine, which published a profile of Chang in 2018 under the same title. In 2021, Chan released her 12-track album titled The Queen of Christmas.
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For these reasons, Chan and her attorney, Luis Tomplos, decided that thepopular It claims to be unfair to All I Want. For Christmas Is You Singer monopolizes 'Queen' title.
"Christmas is big enough for multiple 'Queens,'" wrote Tompros in a legal document. He added that an opposition to Carey's trademark was "unfortunately necessary." Because the singer and her company Lotion LLC "nevertheless seek to claim exclusive ownership of the title and title of 'Queen of Christmas'." Darlene Love, a popular Christmas singer from Chan, opposed Carey's claims of "Queen" status in her filing. I wondered if they really applied for the trademark.
"Is it true that Mariah Carey trademarked [sic] the 'Queen of Christmas'?" she wrote Love. "What do you mean you can't use that title? David Her Letterman officially named me Christmas Queen 29 years ago, a year before she released All I Want For Christmas was You." Declared. From 1986 to 2014 she performedChristmas (Baby Please Come Home).
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"At 81, I won't change a thing," Love continued. I was. "I've been in this business for 52 years, I've earned it, and I can still make that sound! If you have a problem with Mariah, call David or my lawyer!!
In legal documents from Chan and her attorney, she also refers to an interview in which Carrie claims she "doesn't consider herself a Christmas Queen."
When speaking to the BBC on the Zoe Ball breakfast show last year, Carey said the title "Queen of Christmas" was created by other people and that I I just want to," he said. I humbly say I don't think of myself that way.
``I'm a Christmas lover. She said Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was the true "Queen of Christmas."
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In an interview with Variety, Chan said he feels "very strong".
"That's not right," Chang said. “Christmas belongs to everyone. It's meant to be shared. It's not meant to be owned. Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
