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In December 2022, Ticketmaster once again faced controversy after an "unprecedented" number of people were sold fake tickets to the Mexico City dates of the World's Hottest Tour, the 2022 concert tour by Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny. The platform said the fake tickets "caused temporary intermittence in the access control system, which ...
United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.
Spurred on by debacles such as the 2022 Taylor Swift fiasco, in which technical glitches at Ticketmaster prevented millions of fans from buying tickets for Swift’s “Eras” tour, criticism of ...
In November 2022, Taylor Swift publicly addressed Ticketmaster after it announced that it was canceling the general sale for her Eras Tour after it exhausted its inventory during the presale.
These calls were repeated in November 2022 after the Taylor Swift (The Eras Tour) Ticketmaster controversy. [54] On August 2, 2023, Dynamic Ticket Systems, LLC. sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation for patent infringement. [55] [56]
The DOJ launched an investigation into Ticketmaster in the summer of 2022 to probe alleged anticompetitive practices. A Senate subcommittee also launched an investigation last year.
But public vitriol gained steam after a Ticketmaster crash in late 2022 made it harder for Taylor Swift fans to purchase Eras tour tickets. The fiasco was criticized by Swift and a number of ...
The lawsuit targets Live Nation’s dominance in the ticketing market through its subsidiary Ticketmaster. ... The Biden administration launched a new investigation into Live Nation in 2022 ...