Canadian singer Avril Lavigne is cleared from a copyright suit.
Avril Lavigne was reported to have settled her lawsuit with songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer, who claimed that her hit song, “Girlfriend”, was plagiarizing the Rubinoos 1979 single, “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”.
Dunbar and Gangwer filed the lawsuit in July 2007 against Avril (and her songwriting partner, Dr. Luke). On Tuesday (Jan 15) however, they issued a statement that cleared Lavigne and Luke from the suit…
“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.”
Taiwanese celebrity couple Vic Zhou and Barbie Hsu have called it quits. Both stars have confirmed through their agents that they have split under mutual consent.
There are various speculations on what led to their break up, but it doesn’t really matter… let’s just hope that both of them will have a happy life in future.
Korean star Gong Yoo, famous for drama “1st Shop of Coffee Prince”, has joined the army. He made his final farewell to his fans and the press just before entering the army academy on January 14.
Korean star Lee Byung-hun is named as one of the cast for Hollywood movie “G.I. Joe”, which is based on the popular comic and cartoon series.
Lee will play the role Shadow Storm, not the main character but one of the fans favourite. He will star alongside Sienna Miller, Ray Park and Rachel Nichols etc. The movie has not started filming yet, and is expected to be released in summer 2009.
Taiwanese band F4’s latest music video, “Waiting for You” has created lots of debates lately, that the MV (the video, not the song) is copying Korean band TVXQ’s “Step by Step”…
Reality TV star Nicole Richie and pop star Christina Aguilera have given birth to babies at the same Los Angeles hospital on Saturday (Jan 12), just about an hour apart.
Korean actress Moon Geun-yeung is making her comeback in drama acting after 5 years with drama “Wind’s Garden” (unconfirmed title).
The drama is based on a popular novel. Moon Geun-young will star as a talented painter who disguised as a boy while in search for her father’s murderer, and met with a master painter who guided her into a great painter as well.
The drama is scheduled to star filming in March 2007.
An old Korean commercial featuring Hong Kong star Andy Lau and popular Korean actress Lee Young-ae…
The chocolate commercial was made in 1990 (some say 1988, I am not too sure). Andy was already a popular star back then, but Lee Young-ae was still a freshy.
