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Ex Employer Put My Face On A Billboard Without Asking. Is That Legal?

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Location: Pennsylvania, USA. A few weeks ago I was driving past a big intersection near my old job and almost drove off the road because my own face was staring down at me from a huge recruiting billboard for my former employer. It is a photo from a "meet the team" headshot day we did a couple years ago. Back then they just said pics were for the company website and maybe internal stuff, nobody mentioned billboards or outside advertising. I quit this job last fall on good terms, no non compete or anything, and I definitely never signed a separate model release, at least not that I remember. I checked the paperwork I kept from onboarding and only see the usual tax forms, handbook acknowledgment and an IT policy. The billboard has my picture, my first name and the slogan "Come work with people like Alex" which is awkward because I do not work there anymore and honestly would not recommend it. Friends keep sending me photos of it and I am really uncomfortable, especially since this is on a road my kid's school bus drives by. I reached out to HR and they replied that any photos taken "in the course of employment" are company property and they do not need my permission as long as it is "positive representation." That sounds sketchy to me but I am not a lawyer. Do I have any right to demand they take it down or pay me, or is this just something I have to live with here

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