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 […]
Billboard Insider has written before about the Inglewood legal dispute. We talked about the case with out of home legal expert Ron Camhi, who is a Partner and head of the Advertising and Digital Media Group at Michelman Robinson Ron, How did you get involved with the out-of-home industry? My […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can a billboard easement and lease survive a tax sale challenge? Yes, according to 3018 Pershall, LLC. vs Outfront Media, LLC. Here are the facts. In 1990 National Advertising signed a billboard lease on land near I-270 in St Louis. Outfront acquired National advertising in 1997 and entered into a […]
I received a deposition transcript from a court reporter that we had not used before. Without prompting (no AI pun intended), the reporting service included a $75.00 summary of the transcript. While the AI made some incorrect assumptions, they would have been easy to correct in the Word version of […]
Out of home attorney Marnie Christine Cody Ware of the Hamlin | Cody Law firm makes an excellent point on the importance of doing research before you write a billboard lease. I read your Tribal Land article and my immediate thought was this. Separate from tribal land, if you intend […]
Take a billboard down when a lease expires or else the structure may be the landlord’s. That’s the lesson of Denny Weikhorst Equipment vs Tri State Outdoor. Here are the facts. In July 1985 Western Outdoor Advertising signed a lease agreement with Roy Smith to erect a 14 by 48 […]
Earlier this week Texas out of home attorney Richard Rothfelder reviewed the legality of taxing billboards based on earnings. California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin tells Billboard Insider California property taxes can’t be based on a billboard’s income. California property taxes must be based on real property. They may […]
By Richard Hamlin and Marnie Christine Cody, Hamlin|Cody In the same way that a utility company has an easement to run cables or power lines across a private property, a company or individual can permit the construction and display of a billboard on a property. In the billboard industry, a […]
