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Ticket touts who use bots to snatch concert and sports tickets in bulk face unlimited fines in the UK under new government plans. Ministers have agreed to implement recommendations put forward in a...
Tags: Bots, Digital Economy Bill, Legislation, reselling, WatersonCHOICE, the Australian consumer rights group, has filed complaints against reselling websites Ticketmaster Resale and Viagogo over “dodgy pricing practices [and] cheap ticket claims”. The group...
Tags: Australia, CHOICE, Consumer, Drip Pricing, Ticketmaster Resale, ViagogoLawmakers in the US state of Maryland have commenced legislative hearings over new laws that could restrict the reselling of tickets. State Sen. Brian Feldman, the sponsor of the bill, wants to lim...
Tags: Legislation, Maryland, reselling, Restrictions, VirginiaPrime Minister Theresa May said the UK government is continuing to monitor the secondary ticketing market as the issue of scalping came up at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The Prime M...
Tags: Bots, Court, Digital Economy Bill, Parliament, prison, ScalpingCompanies are being allowed to sell match tickets for up to seven times their face value for matches featuring English Premier League football clubs Manchester United and Manchester City, the Sunda...
Viagogo is being sued by the promoters of veteran Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. The online ticket exchange, according to El Pais, is the subject of legal action by Sabina’s partners ...
Tags: Lawsuit, Spain, ViagogoItaly’s SIAE music industry group has initiated legal proceedings against the secondary ticketing industry for the third time this year following complaints about the sale of Lady Gaga tickets. I...
Tags: Italy, Lady Gaga, Legal, SIAE, U2Comco, the Swiss competition authority, will conduct a “thorough review” of the proposed merger between ticketing companies Ticketcorner and Starticket. The merger was announced at the end of O...
Tags: Comco, CTS Eventim, M&A, Merger, Ringier, Starticket, Switzerland, Tamedia, TicketcornerTwo major music venues in the Scottish city of Glasgow have aired their support for a campaign to change the laws regarding the resale of concert tickets. More than 40,000 people have signed an onl...
Tags: Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, Government, Resale, Secondary, SSE HydroIreland’s competition watchdog has begun a formal investigation of “suspected breaches of competition law” in the ticketing of live events. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ...
Tags: Competition, Investigation, Ireland, U2Italians may not be quite as supportive of legislation restricting the secondary ticketing market as some claim, according to new research released by operator Ticketbis. Nearly two thirds of Ital...
Tags: Italy, Secondary, Survey, Ticketbis