Legendary film director Woody Allen wanted $10 million, but a judge awarded him half that amount in a New York Federal courthouse today in his suit against edgy clothing manufacturer American Apparel. The company illegally used Woody’s image dressed as a Hasidic Jew in an old movie on one of its billboards…and since then the ad and story have received more coverage than it would have EVER gotten so we’d say they got their money’s worth.
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DAMN, AS IF HE REALLY NEEDED THAT MONEY. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL ADVERTISERS ACROSS THE WORLD!
I can’t believe they actually did that in the first place and didn’t think there would be consequences.
5 million DOLLARS WORTH? fuck out of here they did not make their money back not even close.
Their whole marketing department needs to be get pink slips.
ON SECOND THOUGHT IT WASN’T EVEN FUNNY, WHAT A COSTLY LESSON TO LEARN & LALE IS RIGHT. THEY’VE JUST ABOUT HANDED OVER THEIR ENTIRE NET WORTH IN A SETTLEMENT CHECK!