In June 2010, CN Blue performed Crying Nut's "Deadly Offside" on music show Mnet "M! Countdown." The TV performance was included in a DVD released in Japan.
Last week, Crying Nut filed a 40 million won (P1.5 million) lawsuit against CN Blue and FNC Entertainment for copyright infringement.
FNC Entertainment said it was "M! Countdown" which made the request for CN Blue to perform the song
Mnet has admitted its fault and said that it paid Crying Nut last year for the use of the song. It apologized to Crying Nut and CN Blue.
FNC has also apologized to Crying Nut on behalf of CN Blue.
In a statement, FNC Entertainment said, "We would like to express our utmost regret on the recent happenings involving CN Blue. We admit without excuses that it was the agency’s fault for sending our artists to the stage without fully checking the audio files due to the urgency of a live broadcast," according to ENewsWorld.
"We would like to sincerely apologize on behalf of the members to the Crying Nut party, who has been troubled through the series of recent events. We deeply sympathize with problems that arose in this situation and promise to make sure this will not happen again in the future. However, concerning the DVD, as several new media and the broadcast station have been saying, we would like to once again state that the company did not participate in the commercial production," the agency said.
But despite the apology and compensation it got, Crying Nut will not back down and will proceed with the lawsuit.
