Some weeks back I mentioned a television taping I attended. On Sunday evening while my wife and I were assembling a puzzle and checking out MTV, the afore mentioned concert was broadcast and while a lot of junk that went down was edited out, my exchange with the lead singer of the group Veil was not, so I was on television.
The very next day was a Monday. As anyone that has lived in Korean can attest, the main form of advertising is not television commercials or print ads in the newspaper, but randomly taping fliers to people’s doors. So one such flier was taped to my door. This particular flier was for the hagwon that my wife and I at one time worked for. I stopped working there sometime in September…my wife somewhat later in November. Imagine my surprise when there we both were in various photos attached to this advertisement. While some of the photos I recall being taken there were several that I am under the impression were Photoshopped and one my wife and I are convinced was taken off her Cyworld page. Neither of us got any kind of compensation for this, but since this is Korean such unauthorized use doesn’t seem to be against the law here. So I guess it’s just one more thing I can add to my resume of awesomeness.
“Hi, I’m Wyatt…teacher / actor / model / awesome dude!”
Wasn’t there some mention of using your photograph for advertising in perpetuity?
I used to write contracts for an English school here in Japan and we always had to
put that in there. My sister was still appearing in advertisements here, ten years
after she’d moved back to Canada.
Comment by Mitch — December 21, 2006 @ 19:48 pm
Mitch,
There was no such clause in the contract, but I’m guessing that like your sister I’ll be appearing in those ads from now until the day the school goes belly up.
Comment by Wyatt — December 21, 2006 @ 22:24 pm