No matter what you may think of Woody and his relationship with his wife/former adopted daughter, he is getting extorted in the most obvious way by American Apparel. American has used a likeness of Woody Allen from a movie where he played a religious Jew, in it’s new billboard and online ads.
How classless, tacky and desperate must your business be, if you use an actor’s image in a commercial, don’t compensate him, and then threaten to bring up and scrutinize every detail of his life when he is unhappy about being your freebie poster-boy?
Just how low class is American Apparel? This low class, “American Apparel lawyer Stuart Slotnick said the company plans to make Allen’s relationships to actress Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, whom Allen married, the focus of a trial scheduled to begin in federal court in Manhattan on May 18.”
How arrogant and pathetic can American Apparel really be you ask? This arrogant and pathetic, “Woody Allen expects $10 million for use of his image on billboards that were up and down in less than one week,” Slotnick said. “I think Woody Allen overestimates the value of his image.”
We all missed the memo where lawyers have been given the authority to decide what someone’s image is worth. What a piece of work this lawyer is. You use his image without permission, and then you bitch about how much he wants for it? He should have said 100million and then expected you to pay for it, and in my eyes it would be completely justified. This is why anyone older than 10, will asks what something costs before they use it. It is akin to going into an expensive restaurant, ordering a bunch of random stuff without looking at the menu or prices, and then bitching when your bill is too high. To top it off, I then threaten to sue you and stomp your family name into the ground when you say that I should have looked at the prices before gorging myself on what clearly does not belong to me.
Hey, Mr. Jerkoff lawyer, your negotiation window closed the second you used his picture. You can’t negotiate backwards.
