Results tagged “ecomedia”

Spiral Beach have found themselves in a spot of trouble. As detailed a week and a half ago in both NOW and Eye, the band got hit with a $1470 bill [PDF] from EcoMedia Direct for putting up eight posters for last month's Opera House show on eight of the company's "SilverBox and Heritage Box Recycling Bins." Again, that's $1470 for eight small posters, like the one above made by Spiral Beach singer/keyboardist Maddy Wilde. As the letter from EcoMedia CEO Erich Genseberger emphatically points out, the bins "constitute private property," and the unauthorized postering is a "serious breach of [EcoMedia's] rights." The bill, sent to the Opera House and passed on to the band, listed the cost of "cleaning and removal of posters on boxes" as $780, "inspection and collection of evidence" as $320, and an "administration fee" of $300, plus $70 for GST.

One year ago today, City Council's Executive Committee approved [PDF] the awarding of the street furniture contract—for the purposes of designing, building, owning, and maintaining bus shelters, garbage bins, ad pillars, and more for a period of twenty years in exchange for advertising rights—to Astral Media Outdoor, despite the fact that the company had absolutely no experience with "street furniture" and maintains dozens of illegal billboards in defiance of City Council.