Comments on: How Valuable Is Our Public Space? http://antiadvertisingagency.com/how-valuable-is-our-public-space/ The Anti-Advertising Agency Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:12:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Lambert http://antiadvertisingagency.com/how-valuable-is-our-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-42036 Steve Lambert Sun, 18 May 2008 03:27:22 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=530#comment-42036 <p>I can <a href="http://visitsteve.com/work/adv-murals/" rel="nofollow">speak from</a> <a href="http://visitsteve.com/work/relax/ rel="nofollow">some experience</a> on this. Odds are low that anyone would confront you on it, much less cite you for it. I also don't think a judge would let this go to court without throwing the case out. And last, if it were to go to court, it would be a very embarrassing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mclibel" rel="nofollow">McLibel</a>esque type scenario both for any company and the city seeing that the companies knowingly break the law and the city is lax in enforcement.</p> <p>That said, be smart about it.</p> I can speak from some experience on this. Odds are low that anyone would confront you on it, much less cite you for it. I also don’t think a judge would let this go to court without throwing the case out. And last, if it were to go to court, it would be a very embarrassing McLibelesque type scenario both for any company and the city seeing that the companies knowingly break the law and the city is lax in enforcement.

That said, be smart about it.

]]> By: Bunnypirate http://antiadvertisingagency.com/how-valuable-is-our-public-space/comment-page-1/#comment-42034 Bunnypirate Sun, 18 May 2008 02:53:12 +0000 http://antiadvertisingagency.com/?p=530#comment-42034 <p>I would be interested in a companion piece to this: what are the punitive costs of defacing these ads?</p> <p>I'm particularly interested in whether there are any penalties to "altering" wildposted ads.</p> I would be interested in a companion piece to this: what are the punitive costs of defacing these ads?

I’m particularly interested in whether there are any penalties to “altering” wildposted ads.

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