Avril Lavigne denies plagiarism claim (AP)
AP - Avril Lavigne has denied a claim by a member of a 1970s rock band that her hit “Girlfriend” rips off one of his tunes - Avril Lavigne has denied a claim by a member of a 1970s rock band that her hit “Girlfriend” rips off one of his tunes. Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer allege in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that Lavigne and her co-writers lifted their 1979 song, “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”
