'70s band sues Lavigne over "Girlfriend"
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TORONTO (Billboard) - Avril Lavigne is being sued by two songwriters who claim that her hit "Girlfriend" sounds like a track their American power pop band recorded in the '70s.
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A former business associate of  Michael Jackson filed a breach-of-contract suit against the pop  star on Tuesday, seeking $3 million he says the performer owes  him for unpaid loans, cash advances and producing fees.
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The piracy-battered music industry will for the first time sue British, French and Austrian music fans, including a French school teacher
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Rocker Courtney Love was sued Thursday by a travel agency that claims she ordered nearly $50,000 in airline tickets, but wouldn't pay...
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Reuters reports that Liza Minnelli&#39;s former bodyguard/chauffeur is suing the singer for sexual harassment. From the court papers, which were unsealed on Wednesday (the lawsuit was filed on Sept.
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The Dave Matthews Band is sued for allegedly dumping human waste from a bus onto a boat in the Chicago River.
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EVERETT, Wash. -- Prosecutors have charged 30-year-old man with felony stalking, accusing him of harassing Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne&#39;s parents and violating a court order by trying to contact her.
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EVERETT, Wash. - A man accused of harassing Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne's parents and violating a court order by trying to contact her has been charged with felony stalking...
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Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has married a fellow Canadian singer-songwriter, according to published reports. Lavigne married Deryck Whibley, the guitarist and front man for the band Sum 41, on Saturday, at a private estate near Santa Barbara, People magazine reported on its Web site.
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The state of Illinois sued the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of liquid human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.
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The lumbering dinosaurs of the music biz just can't stop suing.
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A US lawsuit brought by a company backed by rock group U2 is threatening to reopen old legal wounds for Microsoft. Californian technology company Burst.
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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."
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Rocker Lenny Kravitz is sued over a claim that one of his toilets overflowed into a neighbour's apartment.
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Hey, ho, let's go ... to court. A drummer who spent four years in one of the greatest punk bands of all time, The Ramones, filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming he is owed nearly $1 million in royalties on songs sold over the Internet.
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CLEVELAND (Billboard) - With Ashlee Simpson in the news  this week following a disastrous lip-synching appearance on  "Saturday Night Live," Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne says  it's "pathetic" that some young artists don't sing on their own  record or on stage.
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Rocker Courtney Love was sued Thursday by a travel agency that claims she ordered nearly &#36;50,000 in airline tickets but refused to pay.