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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 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 ...
According to the lawsuit filed in New York by the US government and 30 attorneys general from both political parties, Live Nation has monopolized the live events market by owning key chunks of ...
The lawsuit targets Live Nation’s dominance in the ticketing market through its subsidiary Ticketmaster. This lawsuit is part of the Biden administration’s broader strategy to tackle ...
Ticketmaster, which merged with Live Nation in 2010, is the world’s largest ticket seller across live music, sports, theater and more. During its annual report last month, the company said Ticketmaster distributed more than 620 million tickets through its systems in 2023.
Calling Ticketmaster a monopoly may be a PR win for the DOJ in the short term, but it will lose in court because it ignores the basic economics of live entertainment, such as the fact that the ...
In early 1997, Ticketmaster sued Microsoft because its Sidewalk.com website was linking to pages on Ticketmaster about particular events. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The lawsuit, Ashley Dunn wrote in The New York Times , "sent a shiver of anxiety through the online world since it struck at one of the most basic aspects of the Web – the freedom and openness ...
Ticketmaster's revenue also grew 73% between the first and second quarter of 2023 and the company sold a record-breaking 90 million tickets during the first five months of the year.