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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.
With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams. In 2022, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) received over 140 reports on ...
Michael Rapino. Michael Rapino (born 1965) is a Canadian-American businessman and the CEO and president of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc, which was formed in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster . In the late 1990s, Rapino co-founded Core Audience Entertainment, a concert promoting company, and later held several roles at ...
Live Nation reported last month that worldwide ticket sales for the top 100 tours in 2023 jumped 46% compared with the previous year, bringing in $9.17 billion in sales. Attendance at Live Nation ...
What does the Ticketmaster, Live Nation lawsuit say? With more than 265 concert venues in North America, the lawsuit says Live Nation controls roughly 60% of concert promotions at major concert ...
In 2000, Ticketmaster had signed numerous "exclusive arguments" with a large number of the major athletic and amusement organizations. The ticket business began shifting to the internet, leading to competition between Ticketmaster and Tickets.com. Tickets.com allowed consumers to purchase tickets at their website.
The company has been under investigation by the DOJ for two years, and has been the subject of such claims since Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, a move that was challenged but ...
In 1998, USA Networks Inc., later named InterActiveCorp (IAC), purchased a majority stake in Ticketmaster. [12] That same year, the company merged with CitySearch and was renamed Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. [13] In May 2000, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch acquired TicketWeb Inc., a ticket vendor that sold tickets online and over the phone. [14]