New England Patriots Spying On Ticket Resales; Court Forces Stubhub To Hand...
We've heard plenty of stories about organizations trying to ban the resale of tickets to events. It seems a bit silly to tell someone who bought a ticket to a concert or a sporting event that they're...
View ArticleUK Politicians Support Having Musicians Paid Multiple Times If Tix Are Resold
A month ago, we noted that the managers of some well-known bands were pushing for a rule that would require anyone reselling concert tickets to contribute some of their profits back to the musician....
View ArticleCraigslist Forced To Cough Up Name Of Oscars Ticket Seller To The Movie Industry
Apparently, the Motion Picture Academy, the folks who put on the Oscars (also known as "The Academy Awards"), say that the tickets to that event are non-transferable. That's fine. It's their event,...
View ArticleAnother YouTube Speeder Found Not Guilty Due To Lack Of Evidence
It seems that it's becoming somewhat common for police to scour YouTube for videos of people filming themselves speeding. However, at the same time, we're seeing at least a few of the tickets handed...
View ArticleTicketmaster Collaborates With Artists And Promoters To Shove Scalpers Aside
Ticketmaster is the sort of company that lots of people love to hate. It's long been dogged by complaints that it is anti-competitive -- complaints which have gathered pace with its recent move to...
View ArticleJay Leno Freaks Out That The Unemployed Might Prefer Money Over Free Leno...
Nearly four years ago, we wrote about Bob Geldof's odd freak-out against eBay when it was discovered that ticketholders to his LiveAid event were selling the tickets on eBay. This was silly for a...
View ArticleVancouver Olympics Using Copyright Law (Rather Than Scalping Laws) To Ban...
Michael_S points us to the news that the Vancouver Olympics -- no stranger to massive abuse of intellectual property law -- is now using copyright law to prevent ticket resales. Now, lots of places...
View ArticleSchumer Tries To Force Scalpers To Register; Limit How They Buy And Sell Tickets
There's been plenty of complaining about how ticket scalpers for various concerts and sporting events have been scooping up all of the tickets for events and making it more expensive for fans to get...
View ArticleSF Giants Test Dynamic Ticket Pricing
The San Francisco Giants are experimenting with software that dynamically prices baseball tickets, adjusting prices based on demand, weather, and even other factors like who's scheduled to pitch on a...
View ArticleTicketmaster Takes Another Stab At Shutting Down Scalpers With Paperless Tickets
When it's not been busy trying to get into the scalping business itself, Ticketmaster has been trying to push scalpers aside. It claims it does this for altruistic reasons, but those claims generally...
View ArticleStubHub Says Ticket Resales Are Booming, Thanks To Lower Prices
Online ticket reseller StubHub says that sales revenues and volume were up significantly in the first quarter, as secondary ticket prices fell and lured in more buyers. The head of the company says he...
View ArticleTicketmaster Trying To Cut Down On Scalpers... Or Increase Fee Collection For...
Earlier this year, we had covered the news that Ticketmaster was pushing paperless tickets as a way to cut down on scalping, and now that story seems to be getting much wider coverage. The idea is...
View ArticleCan A Radio Station Give Away Tickets To A Football Game? The Eagles Say No...
We've noted the trend of trying to cut down on scalping by using e-tickets to stop the transfer of tickets, but it appears that the Philadelphia Eagles football team also is trying to stop radio...
View ArticleDoes It Make Sense That A Non-Official Advertiser Can't Give Away Sporting...
Back in October, we wrote about how the Philadelphia Eagles were trying to stop radio stations from doing promotional giveaways of tickets they had legally purchased. The team basically claims that...
View ArticleRestaurants Experiment With Selling Tickets For Dinner
It is notoriously difficult to be successful in the restaurant business (though the popular adage that "9 out of 10 restaurants fail within the first year" may actually be false). That said, a...
View ArticleArtists Realizing It's Time To Offer Cheaper Concert Tickets Directly, And To...
Recently, we'd been discussing how the concert business for (non-arena) musicians was still doing well for some, but that everyone was getting more and more frustrated about fees and services charges...
View ArticleBob Dylan Gets Around Service Fees & Scalpers With A Simple Plan: Pay Cash At...
In our recent post about musician Joe Pug and other artists looking to get away from ridiculous service fees on tickets, commenter berick pointed out that Bob Dylan has come up with an interesting...
View ArticleOhio Town Refunds 980 Speed Camera Tickets For Only Driving 10mph Over The...
A story suggest to us by reader Dan describes how an Ohio town recently issued 980 speeding ticket refunds. The city of Garfield Heights, Ohio, installed two speed cameras, attached to unmanned police...
View ArticlePolice End Up Paying $4k To Guy They Gave Bogus Traffic Tickets To After He...
It's probably not a good idea, in general, to give the middle finger to police officers you encounter in your everyday life. However, it's also not illegal. So a guy who did it twice, and each time...
View ArticleDead Baltimore Cop Signed and 'Certified' Red Light Camera Tickets
Joseph was the first of a few of you to point us to the story of how the police in Baltimore have been sending out thousands of redlight camera tickets that were signed and certified by a police...
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