Continuing a recent trend of legislators taking on the issue of speculative sales of tickets on the secondary market, New Jersey Democratic Assemblymen Fred Scalera and Gary Schaer are lending their voices to the debate. The two are in the midst of drafting a proposed bill that they plan... Read more
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has filed suit against secondary ticket companies TicketNetwork and New Jersey-based Select-A-Ticket for allegedly selling tickets to upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts before the tickets were available. Also named in the lawsuit is TicketNetwork ticket resale partner Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. TicketNetwork is the parent... Read more
A Texas couple who wanted to give their 12-year-old son a special present of Dallas Cowboys tickets last season is suing the ticket broker who allegedly kept their money and never delivered them. Joe and Ashley Fisher of Lumberton, TX paid broker John Landry of Landry’s Tickets $1,255.70 for... Read more
The ordinance that was proposed in Cheyenne, WY, to try to control street ticket scalping for the extremely popular Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD) – 540,000 people over the course of 10 days – was withdraw, TicketNews has confirmed. City Attorney Dan White said that as of May 14, “the... Read more
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed into law a new bill that aims to make ticket resale more transparent in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The bill, SF0759, requires promoters, venues and others to release to the general public all available tickets for an event, and the law prohibits... Read more
A new bill introduced this week in the New York State Assembly could devastate the secondary ticket market in the Empire State by calling for caps on what brokers can charge for resold tickets and establishing a new waiting period for reselling tickets. Proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Richard Brodsky... Read more
In an atmosphere of increasing controversy and litigation surrounding the ticket resale industry, the Alabama legislature is considering a bill that would ease ticket resale laws in the state by repealing a licensing requirement, in addition to other changes. Originally introduced by Republican Rep. Cam Ward, the proposed bill,... Read more
The New York City Council Committee on Consumer Affairs met with representatives from Ticketmaster Entertainment and TicketNews parent company TicketNetwork early today, May 8, during which the companies voiced a need for fixing the event ticketing industry to benefit fans. The hearing was called by Deputy Majority Leader Leroy... Read more
Following the lead of several other cities looking to cordon off street ticket scalping, Cheyenne, WY officials are reportedly considering a new ordinance to create buffer zones around city venues. The proposal would establish a 1,000-foot buffer zone around all venues in the city, which officials hope will help... Read more
The Oregon House of Representatives Thursday unanimously passed proposed legislation that would outlaw the use of software “bots” to obtain event tickets. Such software, which has been highly controversial over the past couple of years, can help users gain an unfair advantage and quickly bypass online security efforts when... Read more