Tommy Dubar

Avril Lavigne getting sued

Here is Avril's response to getting sued over plagarism claims: "You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the 'Rubinoos' are trying to sue me." "They have a song called 'I Want To Be Your Boyfriend' that has no musical similarities to the song 'Girlfriend' that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together. They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never...Read Full Story

Overview

Tommy Dunbar, together with Jon Rubin, founded the power-pop band the Rubinoos in the late 1970s. The band had hits with a cover of Tommy James & the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now," "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend," and the theme song for the 1984 movie "Revenge of the Nerds." Tommy Dunbar filed a lawsuit against Avril Lavigne and her management in 2007, claiming that her single "Girlfriend" too strongly resembled "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." The 2 parties came to an undisclosed settlement in 2008.