By JONATHAN HICAP, Manila
Bulletin
Back in February, indie band Crying Nut filed a copyright
infringement lawsuit against pop rock band CNBLUE and its agency, FNC
Entertainment, for using one of its songs on a TV show and DVD without
permission.
Now, FNC Entertainment has asked a Korean court to order indie
band Crying Nut to delete posts on the latter's website pertaining to the
lawsuit.
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| CNBLUE in Manila (Photo courtesy of CNBLUE's Facebook page) |
The injunction was filed by FNC Entertainment before the Seoul
Central District Court.
“The lawsuit is still going on and the results have yet to come,
but [Crying Nut] is posting through its official site that CN Blue has robbed
it of intellectual property rights. We’re asking that they stop talking about
their side of the story so openly and as if it was the truth," said FNC
Entertainment, according to ENewsWorld.
In June 2010, CNBLUE performed Crying Nut's "Deadly
Offside" on music show Mnet "M! Countdown." The TV performance
was also included in a DVD released in Japan.
The indie band filed a 40 million won (P1.5 million) lawsuit
against CNBLUE and FNC Entertainment.
FNC has maintained its innocence on the issue, saying it was music
show "M! Countdown" which made the request for CNBLUE to perform the
song.
Mnet paid Crying Nut last year for using the song and apologized
to CNBLUE and the indie band.
FNC also expressed its regret over the issue.
"We would like to express our utmost regret on the recent
happenings involving CNBLUE. 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," said FNC, 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.
CNBLUE visited the Philippines last month and held their
"Blue Moon: 2013 CNBLUE World Tour" at Araneta Coliseum.
Link to my original article on Manila
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