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UPDATED: The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has formally opened an investigation into Ticketmaster’s compliance with consumer protection law in relation to the sale of Oasis ...
Many live music fans likely met the news that the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to break up Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation with glee.
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.
The dynamic pricing system used by Ticketmaster is something artists could choose to opt into, with artists such as Robert Smith of The Cure highlighting this in 2023. [132] On 5 September 2024 the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced it was launching an investigation into Ticketmaster over Oasis concert ticket sales. The CMA ...
Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour in 2023. Ticketmaster received criticism for mishandling the U.S. ticket sale of the tour.. The American ticket sales platform Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment were met with widespread public criticism and political scrutiny over blunders in selling tickets to the 2023 United States leg of the Eras Tour, the sixth concert ...
The lawsuit alleges that Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s monopoly lowered incentives "to invest more into proactively improving its ticketing,” and any money that might otherwise have been ...
Ticketmaster controls more than 80 per cent of the market for primary ticket sales in the US. It maintains that control by striking deals with the nation’s largest venues, ensuring that any ...
The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and asking a court to break up the system that ...