MUSIC BOSSES ESCAPE JAIL
Sony music executives have escaped a possible five years in jail after promising to not commission anymore illegal fly posting.
The company was threatened with Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) but North London's Camden Council withdrew the action at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 14 June.
In the first case of its kind, action against chiefs Jo Headland and Catherine Davies was withdrawn after they pledged to stop ordering illegal fly posting.
Action against BMG executive Lucy Handsford was withdrawn only because she is leaving the company in a week.
ASBOs are ususally issued to unruly teenagers, but as fly posting has been defined as causing "harassment, alarm or distress" it fulfills the criteria required to gain an order.
Keep Britain Tidy campaign claims that Sony and BMG jointly save more than £8m in advertising costs through fly posting on everything from shop fronts to telephone-boxes in the borough.
The council estimates that dealing with illegal fly posting costs the Borough's taxpayers around £250,000 a year. /terry c.
The company was threatened with Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) but North London's Camden Council withdrew the action at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 14 June.
In the first case of its kind, action against chiefs Jo Headland and Catherine Davies was withdrawn after they pledged to stop ordering illegal fly posting.
Action against BMG executive Lucy Handsford was withdrawn only because she is leaving the company in a week.
ASBOs are ususally issued to unruly teenagers, but as fly posting has been defined as causing "harassment, alarm or distress" it fulfills the criteria required to gain an order.
Keep Britain Tidy campaign claims that Sony and BMG jointly save more than £8m in advertising costs through fly posting on everything from shop fronts to telephone-boxes in the borough.
The council estimates that dealing with illegal fly posting costs the Borough's taxpayers around £250,000 a year. /terry c.
carla blank - 20. Okt, 13:43
