Dynamic live concert with band on stage, lighting effects, and enthusiastic crowd at night.

Does Ticketmaster have a stranglehold on concert ticketing — or is it just ‘bringing joy’?

7 days ago01 mins

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists’ use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed…

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Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

3 weeks ago01 mins

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer – just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year’s biggest anti-monopoly cases in court. Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly, via a post on her personal X account. But to those who follow the agency closely, it…