The National Commission for Indigenous People or NCIP has found out tha Filipino tattoo legend Whang-Od did not give any permission on Nas Daily creator Nuseir Yassin’s online academy.
“Apo Whang-Od did not consent or was made aware she would teach the Kalinga art of tattooing in Nas Academy,” the NCIP said in its report after its investigation on the incident.
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The agency said that Whang-Od was also not familiar or did not know about the contract she had supposedly signed with the foreign vlogger which was posted by Nas on his social media pages.
It was Whang-Od’s relative that revealed that the tattoo legend was not part of Nas’ online academy and did not sign any contract with the foreigner.
“She did not affix her thumb mark in any contract for this account,” the NCIP added.
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The contract was also considered to be onerous since it states that it should be based by Singaporean laws where Nas is currently based.
“The contract states that the Nas Academy has exclusive ownership of any content that the show would produce including the likeness, image, voice, etc. of Apo Whang-Od and such ownership is in perpetuity, inclusive of the right (to) alteration and the right to assign and transfer the same without consent,” the agency said. (TDT)
