The Taylor Swift ticket fiasco last week renewed calls to investigate the 12-year-old merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, but some legal experts are skeptical that dismantling the behemoth would address the problems raised by officials and fans
if misconduct is found. “This may be the only way to truly protect consumers, artists, and venue operators and to restore competition in the ticketing market,” they wrote in a letter.
Ms. Klobuchar said the Senate antitrust panel she leads will hold a hearing on competition in the ticketing industry. She said she wants to know how consolidation in live events has harmed customers and artists. The committee said it would later announce a date for the hearing.Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.Ms.
Typically, the artist and the promoter set the prices and choose the venues a tour will go through, but they aren’t able to decide who sells tickets to the shows. Rather, venues have exclusive ticketing contracts with companies like Ticketmaster, which pioneered such agreements decades ago and holds the most. When a major touring act of Ms. Swift’s stature hits the road—even with a competing promoter—she mainly plays stadiums whose ticketing inventory Ticketmaster controls.
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