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After suing American Apparel more than a year ago for unauthorized use of his image without his consent and reputation damage, Woody Allen has settled the lawsuit for $5 million, Reuters reports. Allen told reporters, “I am told the settlement of five million dollars I am being paid is the largest reported amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law.”

Allen filed the suit against the clothing company after American Apparel used an image of the director from his 1977 film “Annie Hall” on billboards that appeared in New York and Los Angeles. The man behind the billboards, American Apparel founder Dov Charney, said that the case was about “the dignity of ideas,” adding, “I am not sorry for expressing myself.”