{"id":551964,"date":"2023-02-15T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/live-nation-gets-win-in-antitrust-fight-against-ticket-purchasers\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T03:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:01:22","slug":"live-nation-gets-win-in-antitrust-fight-against-ticket-purchasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/live-nation-gets-win-in-antitrust-fight-against-ticket-purchasers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Live Nation Gets Win in Antitrust Fight Against Ticket Purchasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3029132bdc4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3029132bdc4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/live-nation-gets-win-in-antitrust-fight-against-ticket-purchasers\/#Live_Nation_Gets_Win_in_Antitrust_Fight_Against_Ticket_Purchasers\" >Live Nation Gets Win in Antitrust Fight Against Ticket Purchasers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Live_Nation_Gets_Win_in_Antitrust_Fight_Against_Ticket_Purchasers\"><\/span>Live Nation Gets Win in Antitrust Fight Against Ticket Purchasers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Live Nation \u2014 fighting legal battles on multiple fronts amid renewed scrutiny of its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster stemming from the company\u2019s botched sale of tickets to Taylor Swift\u2019s latest tour \u2014 has won a skirmish in an antitrust suit from consumers with a federal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eals court ruling that the case belongs in arbitration rather than court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Live Nation, finding that the company can arbitrate claims that it allegedly forced purchasers to pay inflated fees for tickets by leveraging its monopoly. The order issued on Monday affirms dismissal of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The ruling may alleviate some of the pressure the ticketing giant faces as it grapples with escalating accusations from lawmakers and fans that it employs anticompetitive practices in the ticket resale market. The Department of Justice has opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/18\/technology\/live-nation-ticketmaster-investigation-taylor-swift.html\">reported<\/a> <em>The New York Times <\/em>in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The 9th Circuit\u2019s ruling didn\u2019t touch on substantive questions posed in the suit of whether Live Nation can charge bloated ticket prices by illegally bundling its concert promotion and ticketing services. The order turned on whether the company\u2019s terms of use for its website, which included the arbitration agreement, is enforceable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Appealing a federal judge\u2019s order dismissing the case, ticket purchasers argued that the arbitration agreement is invalid because it didn\u2019t properly identify the legal names of the corporate entities, Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, as parties to the contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A unanimous 9th Circuit panel sided with Live Nation that \u201cCalifornia law doesn\u2019t require corporate parties to a contract to use their full legal names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The panel added: \u201cEven if California law required the recitation of a corporate entity\u2019s full legal name, \u2018Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.\u2019 is explicitly referenced multiple times in the Terms, including in the arbitration clause itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Instead of pursuing their claims in a prospective class action, ticket purchasers will have to do so before an arbitrator. Companies typically prefer arbitration because plaintiffs can\u2019t team up and leverage others\u2019 claims to negotiate big-money settlements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Attorneys representing ticket purchasers in the suit may turn to filing arbitration claims en masse. The tactic has been used against companies that enforce such agreements. Under most policies, companies are required to pay legal fees for the proceedings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In 2021, Amazon changed its terms of service to allow customers to file suits after plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys hit the company with tens of thousands of individual arbitration demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    One of the firms that spearheaded the legal strategy, Keller Lenkner, represents a plaintiff in the suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ticketmaster and Live Nation merged in 2009, two years after the live-events organizer announced plans to build its own ticketing service. Prior to the deal, Live Nation was Ticketmaster\u2019s largest customer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Antitrust regulators approved the deal with certain conditions. They required Ticketmaster to sell its ticketing service subsidiary, Paciolan, to Comcast and to license its ticketing software to Live Nation\u2019s competitor, AEG. The new company was also not allowed to bundle or retaliate against venues for working with other ticketing services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But the Justice Department found in 2019 that Live Nation had been violating the terms of the settlement by forcing venues to accept Ticketmaster\u2019s ticketing services as a condition for hosting Live Nation performers and retaliating against those that refused. The agency, in turn, threatened to assess monetary penalties for additional violations and installed a monitor tasked with investigating further breaches of the consent decree, which was extended until 2025.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_80367\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Oberstein v. 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