{"id":924,"date":"2019-12-16T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/livenation_consent\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:53:30","slug":"livenation_consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/livenation_consent\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL welcomes DOJ enforcement of Live Nation consent decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<p>December 16, 2019<\/p>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p><span>Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, carolm@nclnet.org, (412) 945-3242\u00a0or Taun Sterling, tauns@nclnet.org, (202)\u00a0207-2832<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC&#8211;<span>The National Consumers League (NCL), America\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization welcomed the news that the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) is r<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/justice-department-preparing-legal-action-against-live-nation-for-ticketing-tactics-11576266778?mod=hp_lead_pos3\"><span>eportedly preparing legal action<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0against Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to crack down on anticompetitive conduct in the live event marketplace. In 2009, NCL led a coalition of consumer groups, independent promoters, and venue owners in opposition to the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger. Since the merger was approved in 2010, NCL has continued to advocate for fairness and transparency in the live event ticketing marketplace.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The following statement is attributable to\u00a0NCL Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud\u00a0John\u00a0Breyault:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The DOJ&#8217;s interest in reining in Live Nation&#8217;s abuses is a welcome development, and long overdue. While robust enforcement of the consent decree may help, it won&#8217;t solve the entrenched ticketing industry practices that cause untold frustration for consumers. This is just the latest sign that the DOJ&#8217;s approval of the original Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger was the wrong decision.\u00a0 Anyone who has tried to buy tickets knows that the live event marketplace, dominated by Live Nation, is rigged against fans. Congressional action to rein in abuses by Live Nation and others in the live event marketplace is necessary to restore sanity\u00a0<\/span><span>and fairness\u00a0<\/span><span>to the ticket-buying experience.&#8221;<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the National Consumers League (NCL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America&#8217;s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 2019 Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, carolm@nclnet.org, (412) 945-3242\u00a0or Taun Sterling, tauns@nclnet.org, (202)\u00a0207-2832 Washington, DC&#8211;The National Consumers League (NCL), America\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[285,14,286,420,25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}