Tag: ticketmaster
Ticketmaster Fined $10M For Hacking Rival
Live Nation’s Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a US$10 million criminal fine in order to sidestep prosecution on charges that it hacked a competitor’s...
Ticketmaster Removes Exclusivity Clauses Over Deal With Irish Regulator 
Ticketmaster entered an agreement with Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) that will see it remove exclusivity clauses from contracts with venues over...
Ticketmaster Commits To Addressing Regulator Concerns In Ireland
The Competition Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has filed a High Court motion seeking to formalise an agreement made with Ticketmaster following a lengthy investigation...
Conduct Remedies, With 2020 Hindsight: Have We Learned Anything in the...
Ten years ago the U.S. antitrust agencies began using conduct remedies more frequently and more expansively than ever before. Research and experience, however,...
Non-Self-Enforcing Remedies and the Recent Modification to the Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger...
Merger remedies may be offered by the merging parties or demanded by antitrust enforcers in cases in which a merger promises benefits to consumers...
Vertical Mergers: A Multi-jurisdictional Comparison
By Michael Blaisdell (Federal Trade Commission)1
Across the international competition community, vertical mergers are receiving considerable attention. CPI dedicated a Chronicle issue to the topic...
US: Dems want probe of concert ticket systems
Two Democratic senators are calling for a federal antitrust investigation of Live Nation and its online concert ticket platform, Ticketmaster, in light of what...
Canada: Competition Bureau expands Ticketmaster investigation
Canada’s Competition Bureau has decided to expand its investigation into Ticketmaster to include probing the allegations of the company’s secret scalping program, according to...
Canada: Competition Commissioner stands ground in fight with Ticketmaster
The Commissioner of Competition is not backing down from its fight to stop Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment from allegedly using a...
US: Ticketmaster’s antitrust bid against Songkick tossed
A California federal judge on Monday, October 16, tossed Live Nation and Ticketmaster's bid for a quick win on some of Songkick's antitrust claims...