Yesterday Billboard Insider noted that some states and municipalities require you to get a permit to take down a billboard. Out of home legal expert Richard Rothfelder, the author of Rothfelder and Falick on Billboard Law will address this issue next week. In the meantime, California out of home attorney […]
Yesterday we asked our readers how much time they want to remove a billboard after a billboard lease terminates. 42% of our readers want their leases to say 60-90 days. 80% of our readers want their leases to say more than 30 days. An upper-midwest out of home exec […]
You can’t prevent an out of home company from removing a sign and then claim it’s yours because it hasn’t been removed. That’s the lesson of Clear Channel Outdoor vs Karkif I . Here are the facts. In 2019 Clear Channel Outdoor entered into a five year billboard lease with […]
Today Billboard Insider talked about a legal case in which a lease contained language that said a billboard had to be removed within 5 days of termination of a lease. We pointed out that this may not be enough time if there are weather or equipment rental or scheduling difficulties. […]
Rothfelder & Falick set out to provide the industry with one source for all aspects of Billboard Law. This book does just that. There are 300 pages of summary and articles broken into seven sections including: FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES AND CONTENT BASED SIGN CODES WHAT THE OPERATOR CAN DISPLAY […]
We are one month in with Rothfelder & Falick on Billboard Law. Richard and I reflected on how the book has done to date. Richard, are you surprised by how well the book has done in its first month of sales? Ha! Well, no, since Dave and you get most […]
Billboard Insider is watching SB 2353 in the Hawaii legislature. The bill would permit billboards and digital signs in the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District in Hawaii. The digital sign initiative would help raise money for a $4 billion development project which includes a football stadium remodel, 4,100 housing units, […]
Many universities and schools are exempt from local zoning codes when it comes to billboards. SB26-038 would have required Colorado State University to comply with local government sign and noise ordinances. The Rocky Mountain Collegian reports the bill was rejected unanimously by a Colorado Senate committee. The chief financial […]
Billboard Insider ran a Q and A in its March 2nd edition on the new book it published and I wrote: Rothfelder and Falick on Billboard Law. As explained in that article, this book examines the unique law on billboards by compiling, organizing, and summarizing over 150 articles my law […]
Richard, tell us about the new book we are releasing today, exclusively through Billboard Insider? OOH operators are painfully familiar with the differences of opinion on the societal benefits versus burdens of billboards, which has led to an extensive body of case, statutory, and administrative law on billboards unique to […]
