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Ticketmaster feels little Susie’s pain, the corporate giant said Friday.

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the production company behind Starz’s Vida and Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss, has landed the television rights to Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry.

an announcement in June from Live Nation and Ticketmaster that they would be utilising an “all-in pricing model”, after complaints from concert-goers about the surprise fees included in ticket prices.Live Nation Entertainment, which formed from a merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster, said at that time that they are “proud to provide fans with a better ticket-buying experience. We have thousands of crew working behind the scenes every day to help artists share their music live with fans, and we’ll continue advocating for innovations and reforms that protect that amazing connection.”The Democrat Senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar, who sits as Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights, wrote in a statement: “From buying a concert ticket to booking a flight, hidden fees are a constant challenge for consumers trying to make informed decisions on big purchases.”“We must put an end to these surprise costs so that consumers have the transparency they need and deserve.

Four U.S. senators today announced a discussion draft bill aimed at protecting actors, singers and others from having their voice and likeness generated by artificial intelligence. The bipartisan Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act, or NO FAKES Act (read it here), would hold people, companies and platforms liable for producing or hosting such digital replicas.

The Senate Judiciary Committee revived the prospects for a long-proposed bill that would bolster print and broadcast news outlets in their negotiations with tech giants.

Following the highly-publicized Senate hearings that took place after a botched Taylor Swift ticket sale, legislation has been introduced for debate by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT): The “Unlock Ticketing Markets Act” seeks to “to improve competition in live event ticketing markets,” according to a statement from Klobuchar’s office. If signed into law, the bill would allow the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to crack down on extended contractors between artists and venues, the kind used regularly by Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor In the wake of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing examining on Ticketmaster’s powerful presence in the live-entertainment market, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct.) today introduced legislation intended to improve competition in live event ticketing markets. Without naming the company, the announcement notes that “Today’s primary ticketing market is dominated by one company that by some estimates has locked up 70 to 80 percent market share and has used its dominance to pressure venues to agree to ticketing contracts that last up to ten years, insulating it from competition.”  Titled the “Unlock Ticketing Markets Act,” the legislation aims to “help restore competition to live event ticketing markets by empowering the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the use of excessively long multi-year exclusive contracts that lock out competitors, decrease incentives to innovate new services, and increase costs for fans,” referencing ticketing companies’ practice of exclusive contracts with venues and promoters.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Live Nation posted robust results in an earnings report encompassing the full 2022 year and its fourth quarter released Thursday, and looks ahead to a blockbuster 2023 amid ongoing government attention to its Ticketmaster division after the debacle surrounding last fall’s on-sale for Taylor Swift’s stadium tour. On a very busy Thursday for the company, it also launched the FAIR Ticketing Act in an effort to combat excesses in the secondary ticketing market, and plans to release a statement in response to one issued earlier in the day by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, who led last month’s controversial Senate hearing on the ticketing industry.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor As part of the ongoing bipartan examination of alleged anticompetitive conduct by Ticketmaster, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Mike Lee (R-Ut.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, sent evidence from their recent hearing to the Department of Justice and called on the DOJ to continue examining the company and its parent Live Nation. The bipartisan letter follows the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on America’s ticketing market in the wake of the chaotic on-sale for Taylor Swift’s 2023 stadium tour. 

After for the singer's upcoming Eras tour, the company was brought in to testify before Congress about potential antitrust violations. Simply put, we're not supposed to have monopolies in this country…but it's virtually impossible to go on tour without selling tickets through Ticketmaster.

for her 2023 Eras tour, her first since 2018, leaving furious and stressed fans unable to purchase tickets. Ticketmaster ultimately had to cancel the general ticket sale “due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand,” per a statement, resulting in Taylor Swift herself that the botched process “pissed her off.”Politicians including AOC began weighing in almost immediately. Now, overcoming their usual gridlock, Congress is poised to make some moves.

The breakdown of Ticketmaster’s sale of Taylor Swift tickets last year triggered a high-profile Senate hearing on Tuesday, as a top executive from parent Live Nation Entertainment found himself apologizing for the debacle yet defending competition in the industry.

The crash of Ticketmaster’s website amid an overload of demand for Taylor Swift tickets has led to a Senate hearing, as lawmakers seize on the incident to scrutinize a host of business practices in the ticketing industry.

Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, is the focus of an antitrust investigation that predates the Taylor Swift ticket snafu this week, according to a report.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chair of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, fired off a letter to Ticketmaster on Thursday amid concerns that the outages on its site for Taylor Swift concerts reflect a lack of competition in the business.

President Joe Biden used part of his remarks in Florida on Wednesday to blame Hurricane Ian, a recent Category 4 storm, on human-caused climate change despite recent pushback from experts. "We're in a situation where the Colorado River looks more like a stream," Biden said during a speech in Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon. "There's a lot going on, and I think the one thing this has finally ended is a discussion about whether or not there's climate change, and we should do something about it." Biden visited Fort Myers alongside Gov.

The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared legislation that would give news outlets a reprieve from antitrust laws and allow them to band together to negotiate agreements with tech platforms.

Those who accuse Bill Maher of drifting too far from his liberal roots must have been happy with the lineup for Friday’s Real Time on HBO. From film director and author John Waters to Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar to director/actor and extreme liberal activist Rob Reiner, it was clearly a group that leans to the left side of the aisle.

Lawmakers from both parties have introduced revised legislation that would allow news publishers and broadcasters to jointly negotiate with major tach platforms for access to their content.

The WGA East, decrying the “negative impact” the Big Tech giants are having on ad revenue for news organizations, has submitted written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition, Antitrust and Consumer Rights for its hearings on “Breaking the News – Journalism, Competition, and the Effect of Market Power on a Free Press.”

Senate Republicans again blocked voting rights legislation on Wednesday, setting up Democratic-led effort to change the  filibuster rules as a way to move the bills forward.