All posts belonging to the Legal tag can be found in the list below.
Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has called for ticket touting to be made illegal across all venues in the city, citing that the secondary market creates the “illusion of hot demand.” The watchd...
Tags: Consumer Protection, Fees, Hong Kong, Legal, pricing, Resale, Scalping, ToutingBilly McFarland, the founder of the ill-fated Fyre Festival - called a "complete disaster" by fans - has been jailed for six years. A judge described the 26-year-old, who pleaded guilty to several ...
Tags: Billy McFarland, Festival, Fraud, Fyre Festival, LegalTicketmaster has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for “unlawful and unfair business practices” by allegedly “encouraging” scalpers. According to the suit, Ticketmaster emboldens touts a...
Tags: Class-Action Suit, Lawsuit, Legal, Resale, Ticketmaster, TradeDeskGovernor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law which acts to remove a cap of five per cent on the number of tickets artists, venues and other parties can withhold from public sale before they hit the...
Tags: Bill, Cap, Holdbacks, Legal, New Jersey, NJNew Zealand’s Commerce Commission has a strong chance of winning its case against Viagogo, according to an expert in competition law. The Commission last week announced that it would commence civ...
Tags: Commerce Commission, Fair Trading Act, Legal, New Zealand, Sued, ViagogoSkiddle lost more than £65,000 on last year’s disastrous Hope and Glory festival in Liverpool, the company has revealed. The ticketing website told the Liverpool Echo newspaper that it lost a to...
Tags: Festival, Legal, Liverpool, Refund, SkiddlePrestige Entertainment has denied allegations that it has previously used bots to acquire tickets on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster filed a $10m (£7.5m/€8.5m) lawsuit against brokers that reportedly u...
Tags: Bot Software, Bots, Brokers, Lawsuit, Legal, Prestige Entertainment, Renaissance Ventures, Resale, TicketmasterLive Nation shareholders have begun legal proceedings against the company in connection with last month’s New York Times story that suggested it is being investigated by the Department of Justice. ...
Tags: Competition, Court, Legal, Live Nation, Securities, TicketmasterCanada’s Commissioner of Competition is still battling to stop Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation from using what is alleged to be a deceptive ticket pricing practice. The law enforcemen...
Tags: Canada, Fees, Legal, Ticketmaster, Transparency, WatchdogTicketOne has won its legal battle against Italy’s antirust authority AGCM after it requested a fine to be overturned. The Lazio Regional Administrative Court ruled in favour of Eventim-owned Tic...
Tags: A.G.C.M, Antitrust, Bots, Eventim, Fine, Italy, Legal, Secondary Market, Ticket One
