Tony Dunbar and James Gangwer had claimed that Avril Lavigne's hit "Girlfriend" was ripped off from one of their songs in the late 70's called "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend". The two have released a statement taking back the harsh claims, and now say Avril did nothing wrong in the first place.

"We are satisfied that any similarities between the two songs resulted from Avril and Luke's use of certain common and widely used lyrics. We therefore completely exonerate Avril and Luke from any wrongdoing of any kind in connection with the claims made by us in our lawsuit."

Whatever. They're just happy they got some publicity because who really ever heard of "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" before this lawsuit came up?

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