%PDF-1.4 % Further, some states have preventative legislation in place. %%EOF Copyright 1999-2023 LegalMatch. 0 Mississippi and New Mexico prohibit reselling only college events. Scalping is generally permissible in a number of other states with limited restrictions. No one seemed to notice the Napster-like product that StubHub had created, which allowed concert tickets rather than songs to be resold over the internet without any compensation to the artist. It is legal in some places, and illegal in others. There are, however, some tools and technologies that will help the vast majority of businesses. 0000001594 00000 n Laws about ticket scalping vary by state, and there is no federal law that prohibits the practice. WebSecondary Ticket Marketplace Guide - Squire Patton Boggs The United Kingdom. So resellers of tickets should be informed about state laws regarding their practice. The penalty: $500 per violation, or the proceeds from the resale of the tickets, whichever is higher. (2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes 56:8-26 56:8-38). Ticket bots can do this because they enable buyers to buy tickets in bulk by completing online forms automatically so it is done faster than a human can do it with their keyboards. By continuing past this page, you agree to our terms of use. The result of this is an unholy alliance between resale sites, brokers willing to use bots, and the purveyors of bot technologies. 0000008598 00000 n Solution= make scalping illegal or harder to achieve. endstream endobj 89 0 obj<>stream I have no experience with France. 12 13 16 people have successfully posted their cases, 5 people have successfully posted their cases, 10 people have successfully posted their cases, 6 people have successfully posted their cases, 20 people have successfully posted their cases, 7 people have successfully posted their cases, 9 people have successfully posted their cases, Can't find your category? Oklahoma City and the City of Las Vegas both prohibit the practice. Whats more, scalpers are opportunists by nature. Let's make a change trailer The law makes it illegal to own, use or share bot software. LegalMatch Call You Recently? What is really going on here, and what explains why resale sites are trying to make ticket transferability an antitrust issue, is that the vast majority of their business is not fan-to-fan resale but rather high-volume professional ticket resellers. WebIn the US, ticket scalping is the practice of buying and reselling event tickets by private citizens, rather than by the sponsoring venue or organization, usually at a much higher price than their face value. hbbd```b``N;@$/dfOr`5`5d2+I&09 LzI0& f{$c5;14>"&Ff8uC?! endstream endobj 87 0 obj<>stream Using or selling software to circumvent, thwart, or evade a control or measure, which is used on a ticket seller's internet website to ensure an equitable distribution of The rallying cry for the resale sites is Fan Freedom which not coincidentally is the name of the front group that StubHub and its then-parent eBay formed in 2011 to put a grass roots face on efforts to fight anything that limited ticket transferability. In Florida, StubHub made over $6,500 in campaign donations to members of the state legislature in support of a 2006 bill to amend Florida's 61-year-old anti-scalping laws. The secondary ticket market in 2012 was about a $3 billion to $5 billion business, growing at a rate somewhere between 12 percent and 24 percent. The best estimates are that over 70% of their business is serving professional resellers. The license a consumer receives when he buys Microsoft Word is to use it, not to resell it. In fact, Ticketmaster facilitates face value transfers with its secure digital transfer technologies. In American law, the distinction between a sale and a license is day and night. WebSpecifically, there are seven states where scalping is illegal because anyone who is selling or reselling tickets needs a special license (New York, Alabama, Georgia, New Jersey, %PDF-1.6 % Are you struggling to keep up with online security threats? 5 Reasons Why Your Data is at Risk While Working Remotely & 8 Tips to Secure Your Information, Over 320,000 websites and mobile apps worldwide are protected by GeeTest captcha, Which CAPTCHA is Right for Your Website: All Four Generations Explained, GeeTest Wins Bot Mitigation and Cybersecurity Award Honors, Stay Ahead of Bot Threats with GeeTest Traffic Analysis Dashboard, The entertainment industry has a lot of vulnerabilities. As of 2013, only a few states prohibited reselling tickets or made it unreasonable to do so. You can unsub at any time here. 0000004926 00000 n The economics of scalping have been studied extensively and there is widespread agreement that whatever gains there might be to allocative efficiency, they are more than outweighed by the wealth transfers that flow from consumers to scalpers and from socially wasteful rent seeking behaviors such as the use of bots. Most likely, there will be artists who dont care and wont put any restrictions on resale. 0000008251 00000 n New South Wales government prohibits scalpers. 0000001241 00000 n A criminal defense lawyer can advise you of your rights in an Internet ticket In the United Kingdom, ticket scalping is technically legal, except at soccer matches, where it is against the law. Have a great Sunday! In the past decade ticket scalping laws have evolved into laws that actually distinguish between a ticket scalper and a ticket broker. Ticket scalping is the practice of re-selling tickets to events. No one seemed to notice the Napster-like product that StubHub had created, which allowed concert tickets rather than songs to be resold over the internet without any compensation to the artist. These tickets are bought by automated software in order to be resold at a higher price. In extreme cases, brokers using bots acquire as many as 90% of the tickets available for a particular event. (720 Illinois Compiled Statutes 375 1). and even punishable. Steve McDonnell's experience running businesses and launching companies complements his technical expertise in information, technology and human resources. Buying something at one price and selling it at a higher price has been the basis of commerce for thousands of years. In some cases, however, Below-market pricing by artists attracts scalpers, some of which use bots to acquire tickets, and resale sites happily provide the scale and legitimacy to sell the tickets. 0000001441 00000 n Concert tickets are revocable licenses issued by the primary ticketing company on behalf of the venue hosting the event. By signing, you accept Care2's Terms of Service. Let us know. They understand that not everyone can pay what the market will bear, and they want to ensure that some sizable portion of the venue is affordable to younger or less affluent fans. In the meantime, lets stop crediting the notion that technologies that permit but do not mandate restrictions on ticket transferability violate the antitrust laws. 2023 Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. All rights reserved. They make a superficially alluring argument that resale is fan-to-fan exchange among consumers who purchased a ticket at face value, as a result own it, and should therefore have the freedom to resell it without interference. That is a world in which scalpers and resale sites are incentivized to get tickets by any means possible, and both artists and consumers are cheated. They use bots to scrape event data and ticket prices, continuously scan seat map inventories for newly released or premium seats, and instantly purchase available tickets to resell them. Whats more, some tickets are physical and others digital e-tickets. 1 dimmufitz 5 yr. ago I believe in ohio reselling up to face value is legal. The antitrust noise coming from resale sites and their Astroturf advocacy groups is about one thing and one thing only: protecting the flow of enough tickets to the secondary market to support Viagogos $4 billion purchase price for StubHub, Vivid Seats $1.5 billion market cap, and SeatGeeks aspirations to go public with a similar valuation. To do this, you may want to speak with an experienced criminal defense attorney who can tell you what the law requires and how you may buy, sell and resell tickets legally online. Commissions off bot-acquired tickets are money in the bank. Care2 Stands Against: bigots, racists, bullies, science deniers, misogynists, gun lobbyists, xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, animal abusers, frackers, and other mean people. Login. Nowadays they appear to be very sophisticated. Did A person can sell event tickets online as long as they comply with applicable state laws. Companies looking to stop scalping are advised to follow a layered, multi-pronged approach thats informed by historical data and trends. All rights reserved. Taking advantage of the excitement surrounding the Olympic Games, the Chinese national spent 230,000 yuan (USD 34,000) to book 527 tickets to various events using the online ticketing portal. But despite the apparent prevalence of the practice, no one has been prosecuted for this hard-to-prove crime in Davidson County. Rhode Island and North Carolina both limit the amount charged above face value to $3. In any case, it doesnt take a Ph.D. in economics to figure out that consumers arent better off when a $300 ticket sells for $3,000 and the artist doesnt get a penny of the scalpers $2,700 profit. Nonessential goods are exempted from the Price Act He earned a degree in computer science from Dartmouth College, served on the WorldatWork editorial board, blogged for the Spotfire Business Intelligence blog and has published books and book chapters for International Human Resource Information Management and Westlaw. But predictably, scalper lobbyists and mouthpieces claim these innovations hurt fans because they interfere with some supposed freedom to resell tickets at a profit. hb```e``z "c@(1CTaL3P)).an?.nJI J```h``P S@ She received her J.D. Depending on what was popular in the era, ticket resellers might focus on a specific sport, genre of music, theatrical show, or comedy act. ?~zd*}9j5___X=Xc_Zd c3 \k1&<0_'2 m=LR CCr ,VVJLLQ !# ]&()z'jw30Ua@-YWsoI- ExM:R5rha62]f!hzw*Q@P"3ZPAyA\ B,S[z|;4Pb)]'6iN(c6'to:H3M;7VZj)>nS9bkT`JQ nk*DIH EX1qZ)[L$^19t'1KJXm/+>Oy~yn/F,2'h? RS In some cases, however, local governments have the authority to legislate ticket reselling. Instead of legislating at the state level, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin delegate the authority to local governments. Delaware prohibits reselling resell tickets at a higher price than their face value on the day before or during an event. Ticketmaster estimates that 20-30% of the tickets it puts on sale for popular artists are improperly diverted to the secondary market by bots. Ticketmaster does not make that decision either; it just follows the artists instructions. If you know you can't sell them, then you're not going to buy them.". Budnick said bots are absolutely used. Copyright 2023 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. To the scalpers and the secondary sites that cater to them, anything that restricts transferability is an existential threat, regardless of whether its good for the consumer. Law, Intellectual When buying tickets to an event in the state of Tennessee, there always seems to be the issue of ticket scalpers. One prolific ticket scalper was discovered following the leak of the so-called Paradise Papers containing, among others, evidence of a multi-million-dollar ticket scalping operation which StubHub was also accused of deliberately permitting to take place on its platform and even assisting. And for SeatGeek and StubHub as well, professional resellers that are somehow getting thousands of tickets far more than anyone could acquire legitimately fuel the business. And other laws have been discarded. South Carolina permits only online sales. 0000008409 00000 n No one seemed to notice the Napster-like product that StubHub had created, which allowed concert tickets rather than songs to be resold over the internet without any compensation to the artist. For example, Arizona and California restrict the locations where tickets can be resold; Delaware also restricts the time they can be resold. Anyone who knowingly purchases more tickets than the specified limit from the original ticket seller in order to resell them violates the Florida statute. Its about scalper freedom. 25, at 118. Did you know that 4 out of 5 event tickets are purchased by bots every day? In Florida, up until a bit over a decade ago, ticket scalping was illegal. 72 25 Moreover, it gets around authentication codes on websites that are designed to block the use of ticket bot software. Theyll use them instead for their actual intended purpose. These tools empower hundreds of artists to make individual choices about the best strategy for selling their tickets to their fans. 0000009201 00000 n fS[00. To understand the nature of ticket scalping, lets take a closer look at it. The company hopes to pass more state laws that ban the use of bot software as a deterrent. The state in which you live primarily determines if scalping is illegal or, if it's legal, the types of restrictions imposed on after-sale tickets. A ticket bot is a software program that automates the process of searching for and buying tickets to events on an online ticket vendor platform, such as Ticketmaster. It varies The law labeled the ticket-seller most often Ticketmaster as the aggrieved party that must bring forward charges. startxref This conclusion was reached after studying 180 different ticketing websites. 0000004559 00000 n Ticket scalping, or the practice of selling an event ticket for more than its face value, has been illegal in Michigan. xref It should not take more than a moments reflection to realize that everyday fans reselling tickets for convenience rather than profit are never going to fuel the likes of StubHub, SeatGeek and Vivid Seats. This law was put into place under the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994, where any reselling of soccer tickets, except those authorized by the event organizers, would be considered illegal. Without it, our site might not function properly. Tickets are bought from licensed sellers and then sold for a NASHVILLE, TN Ticket scalpers could be fined under a proposal coming before the Metro Council next week. %%EOF Ticket resale became a $5 billion industry in the U.S. alone. Web2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - 578.395. So, if an artist or team wants to restrict or condition resale for tickets to their shows, they can do that; the venues will happily accommodate that, just as they let the artists and team pick price points and availabilities. This leaves customers with no choice but to buy them at wild costs. We've helped more than 6 million clients find the right lawyer for free. Wisconsin prohibits resale of tickets to the state fair. Scalping generally is not banned under Tennessee law, though the use of so-called "bots" to buy tickets online is banned under state law and U.S. Rep. Marsha In North Carolina, as well as many other states, reselling tickets for more than $3 over face value, what many refer to as scalping, is illegal but only in person. The company invests in its own anti-bot software. For instance, an event organizer is as interested in this as a platform built to facilitate the lawful reselling of unwanted tickets. Two tickets, $600! One week before a new Missouri law will kick in legalizing ticket scalping at sporting events, scalpers like Bill, who declined to give his last name, combed their way through the crowd. Fortunately, I was still able to get tickets to the concert. StubHub even skirted the anti-scalping laws that most States had but which, not anticipating the internet, were limited to scalping at the event site. Tickets issued by a charity may not be resold for more than $1 above their face value. The ticket bot can conduct hundreds or even thousands of transactions at the same time. The result is that most consumers are not able to purchase tickets when they are sold originally and are left with buying tickets on the resale market at a substantial markup. Vivid Seats does not even pretend to be a fan-to-fan exchange; it serves professional resellers only. 980 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<482F18226C70E44E91C2214AD73676F4><05655CD2BEA4AD48A7B8FF5AB39EAA6D>]/Index[954 60]/Info 953 0 R/Length 121/Prev 268531/Root 955 0 R/Size 1014/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream 1.5. StubHub even skirted the anti-scalping laws that most States had but which, not anticipating the internet, were limited to scalping at the event site. Ticketing industry characteristics that appeal to scalpingbots: The legitimacy of the ticket scalping situation is different across the world. e-Bay. To resell tickets they need to receive documented permission from the original vendor. Law, Employment 0000010487 00000 n Click here. Hawaii, Indiana and Maryland prohibit reselling boxing, wrestling or kickboxing events. No one seemed to notice the Napster-like product that StubHub had created, which allowed concert tickets rather than songs to be resold over the internet without Transit Plan Reconsidered + National Police Association Sues MNPD, Targeted Shooting Near Downtown + Total Abortion Ban Lifted, Tennessee Titans New Stadium + High Schooler Denied At Senior Prom, T-Mobile Tuesdays: Get Free Stuff And Great Perks Every Week, Legendary Swimmer and EverWalk Founder Diana Nyad to Lead Free Music City Walk. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. %PDF-1.4 % The reselling debate . The antitrust arguments levied against Ticketmaster today by secondary ticketing companies like SeatGeek are a case in point. Because scalping means that tickets will sell at a price too high for most people to afford. Furthermore, knowingly buying tickets from a scalper can also incur fines in some regions. It does not work at all if artists are able to deliver tickets directly to the fans who want to attend the show at the prices the artist selected because, to state the obvious, those people wont resell their tickets. gazpacho June 22, 2005, 4:30pm #4. The issue: Organized ticket scalpers using special "bot" software to buy tickets to popular concerts as soon as they go on sale, leaving average fans shut out. xb```f``ZcB7Ob` tn1e`P 300p5T7tc0_%,( {u Quebecs Bill 25 prohibits brokers from reselling a ticket at a higher price than its face value. D'dDX$8Krv0pzpD::Td1{ZT Enforcing the law is complicated for a variety of reasons, including highly sophisticated software that scalpers use to crack computer systems that companies such as Ticketmaster use to sell tickets. It is also a business model that works best when (a) as many tickets as possible get to the resale market and (b) resale prices are as high as the market will bear. The more successful they are, the bigger problem this becomes. Tennessee is a state known for concerts and even hockey! The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, April 19, with a 4-3 split decision that its anti-scalping law applies to authorized ticket agents like Ticketmaster. A Global Times reporter investigating the phenomenon was quoted the mind-blowing price of 80,000 yuan (approximately USD 12,500) for just one ticket to a one-way flight. Resale sites have a long history of complaining about anything that might lessen the flow of tickets to the resale marketplaceand of lodging those complaints without regard to obvious consumer interests like reducing fraud. E-Bay has agreed to suspend these transaction (perfectly OK under British law). Ann Wilson of Heart & Tripsitter Tickets Jul 24, 2023 Chattanooga, TN | Ticketmaster The Next Sale Will Begin on Thu, May 4 @ 10:00 am EDT 2 days 22 hours 36 mins 12 secs Onsale Dates and Times Onsale to General Public Starts Fri, May 5 @ 10:00 am EDT 3 days away Venue Presale Starts Thu, May 4 @ 10:00 am EDT Ends Thu, However, in 2006 the Florida Legislature changed the laws, and permitted persons, including ticket brokers, to resell tickets. Finally, the statute prohibits the sale or use of software to get around ticket sale security. Reach Nate Rau at 615-259-8094 and on Twitter @tnnaterau. However, the BOTS Act of 2016 prohibits the use of software to enable scalping. Analyze your needs and options and take serious measures right now. 72 0 obj <> endobj 9mpq 8}; fJun*l]m%2,2DT' JPb Once you understand how scalping actually works, it is not surprising to hear that reported cases of ticket scalping go back to at least the 19th century, when we have evidence that tickets to Charles Dickenss tour in the States in the 1860s were scalped. For example, in Australias New South Wales, scalping is illegal but only if youre reselling at more than +10% of the ticket price. This has nothing to do with the fan-to-fan exchange that drives the fan freedom narrative. So, a person should not assume that buying tickets from an online auction site is legal in every case. Copyright 2023 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media, All Rights Reserved. Similarly, since hotels license permission to stay in their rooms, they can prohibit ordinary consumers from reselling those rooms while allowing Expedia to license a block of rooms and resell them. 0000000931 00000 n Ticket legislation is a A person can buy event tickets online as long as they comply with state and federal law. [15] References [ edit] Elsewhere, there are some laws in place, which can also vary greatly. She then taught English as a foreign language for eight years in the Czech Republic. 0000004108 00000 n You Care. You can book and pay for three nights at a hotel, but you cant turn around and sell two nights to someone else. <<5c5aae24001bb641a437032051c6193c>]>> And then in 2000, the year StubHub was formed, internet technologies transformed resale by providing the digital infrastructure for ticket scalping and arbitrage to occur on an industrial scale and with a veneer of legitimacy. Members of the License Bureau are only out for very big events like Red White and Boom or an OSU football game. In some places its illegal to resell tickets above a certain price limit or if you dont have a business license for that kind of trade, in others it isnt. You have JavaScript disabled. 0000000016 00000 n Breast Ultrasound Screening Coming Direct to You! Both eBay's (EBAY 1.91%) Stub Hub and Live Nation's (LYV 0.62%) Ticketmaster support ticket reselling. Youre sure to hear a lot of complaining from secondary sellers this week after two iconic bands Pearl Jam and U2 announced new shows with restricted transfer tickets. Please provide a valid Zip Code or City and choose a category, Please select a city from the list and choose a category. and even punishable. Hl]o0+|aeWihipkp'/hk-_ueF !\%%TO y!K P5$n? After that, they resell them with inflated prices. Why do you need to take measures to prevent scalping bots? trailer The issue: Organized ticket scalpers using special "bot" software to buy tickets to popular concerts as soon as they go on sale, leaving average fans shut out. 12 0 obj<> endobj Fans would lose because artists would be stripped of their current ability to restrict sales to real fans at prices the artists choose. Block, Practice Commentaries, McKinney's Cons.Laws of NY, 3B Arts & Cultural Affairs Law (1999 Pocket Part) Art. B| ;Tm}l+Sy,q?Wx_D,6Xd'AY)&-}YpcIbb(Y(s{F\vX?z?W]!alAE'etOR,H AxdNO^Fdk|n R"dZ8iN!OA- 0q.ds`cPy#/%:n^A57i]n`pkN):5i8)h+%@~9t* R 0000007059 00000 n Hl0)JZU]0a &6P} FYEeqVuKPReaEL{t5T.P7bn.W("*eu =S1 G? WebScalping is the practice of buying up a desirable commodity, such as tickets to an event or copies of a hard to find toy, and then selling it at inflated prices once the demand exceeds the supply that you helped deplete. 0000004833 00000 n In the first place, the business interests at stake have very little to do with the everyday fan who needs to resell tickets because she cant make the show or because he bought four intending to make a few bucks by selling two. WebStates like Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri ticket scalping is illegal. Taxes in Retirement Seminar at The John P. Holt Brentwood Library, Nashville Area Chamber Of Commerce: Small Business Week Feature: Faith Family Medical Center, Whos Hiring In The Nashville Area: This Weeks Newest Job Openings, Nashville Area: Check Out 5 Local Homes On The Market, Nashville Area Chamber Of Commerce: Meet The Veterans | Shane Minnick, Retired Special Forces Senior Enlisted NCO. & , continuously scan seat map inventories for newly released or premium seats, and instantly purchase available tickets to resell them. Resale marketplaces want antitrust law to protect their narrow commercial interests, not anything about competition or consumer welfare. Law Practice, Attorney There are state scalping laws that protects buyers from any Internet ticket sales fraud. In some places, some types of scalping are illegal (especially in areas with professional sports teams with good lobbyists). He then sold these on StubHub. Similarly, concert tickets grant permission for the buyers to attend the show. They claimed every subsequent advance in secure digital ticketing, such as Ticketmasters SafeTix encrypted mobile tickets technology, was anticompetitive. Attempts to reintroduce ticket scalping regulations failed in all three states during 2011. Law, Products Sources: TCA 39-17-1105 and Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk. This is not new. 1013 0 obj <>stream Law, Insurance When ticket restrictions, such as household limits, are violated, Ticketmaster can revoke the tickets. Ticket scalping is defined as the act of an unauthorised ticket speculator buying tickets to a performance or sports event, and then reselling them at inflated prices. One of antitrusts most revered principles is that the antitrust laws were enacted for the protection of competition, not competitors. The principle has been invoked on countless occasions when some competitors antitrust claim, filed ostensibly to promote consumer interests, actually served only its selfish interests. In other words, it is designed to prevent online ticket scalping. State Laws Against It - My Law Questions 0000004578 00000 n And the mothers milk of that industry is access to tickets, particularly tickets to the most popular shows and sporting events. 0000005878 00000 n WebTennessee [11] Regulating botted ticket scalping is not exclusive to the United States, as multiple foreign countries have adopted similar legislation. The issue especially came to the forefront in Nashville recently when the Foo Fighters announced a surprise show at Ryman Auditorium and then charged just $20 per ticket. We are Music City. 0000003426 00000 n Detecting ticket scalping bots is hard. MSN Money: Two Ways of Looking at Ticket Scalping, ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries: A Brief Overview on Ticket Scalping Laws, Secondary Ticket Markets and the StubHub Effect, SportsBusiness Daily: Secondary Ticket Market Has Soared Even as Economy Has Faltered. Having problems signing this? WebStubHub, Ticketmaster, TicketNetwork, and others began to lobby state legislatures to repeal or modify the stricter anti-scalping laws. In recent years, the Internet has offered people a global market in which they may conduct business. Tennessee is a state known for concerts and even hockey! The idea that the fan owns the ticket it is his or her property is also false. They claimed it was anticompetitive when Ticketmaster transitioned from paper tickets to secure digital ticketing. *xhM*,4V.I~7}%H#LQDytj0SVlRbgIZ\8q@= [G8:U8T@B ; hca9Kx~nF So the antitrust attack on Ticketmaster is in reality a disguised attack on artists for exercising the prerogative that every business has to set the prices and terms on which they will do business. 4'[1ckq6R7{/^}-:-K4- na7Cu1x'tzLF AY!fY8rYdT9Rg63 4\cB1zZpw|6! It depends. Australia In Australia, the New South However, even This has also been illegal in the UK since 2018. If you have already been charged with ticket scalping, an experienced criminal defense attorney can advise you of your legal rights and available defenses and represent you fully in court. New York the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law limits the ticket's reselling price to $5 or 10% (whichever is greater) of the ticket's face value. The bill is before the council on first reading April 4. Some online auction sites try to prevent illegal ticket scalping by removing offers that violate state scalping laws, or by reporting illegal transactions to the proper authorities. 0000000556 00000 n Schedule A Free Case Evaluation With Our Team Our Attorneys Our Promise: Welcome to Care2, the worlds largest community for good. This happens when, after buying large numbers of tickets, the buyer later resells these tickets on third-party websites at a higher price than what they paid in order to make a profit. More details here: The economics of ticketscalping. Both will use Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange, which allows fans who cant attend the show for some reason to sell their tickets at the price they paid. They have attacked artists like Eric Church and Bruce Springsteen for restricting transferability. And it is about protecting the selfish interests of one class of competitors, the resellers, not about protecting competition. No need for a new law. Unregulated price inflation leads to customer complaints. Let's make a change Tennessee and make scalping illegal. WebTicket resale (also known as ticket scalping or ticket touting) is the act of reselling tickets for admission to events. You are our people. ", "Some of the public facilities already had some protection," VanReece told The Tennessean. 74 0 obj<>stream Currently, ticket scalping is illegal in 12 states. SEONs expertise in fraud detection and prevention brings the right risk-scoring tools for bot mitigation and dozens more pain points. @ Q The BOTS Act is designed to make this practice illegal. 0000006461 00000 n
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