The recent Ticket News article, Ticket Reform Hopes Face Tough Task in Live Nation’s Connections, highlights AAI’s roadmap aimed at breaking up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly. The analysis explains how Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s monopolistic practices harm fans, artists, teams, and smaller players in live events, why a break-up remedy is needed to restore competition, and what it could look like. From the article:
The American Antitrust Institute even provided a roadmap for how a structural remedy breaking up Ticketmaster and Live Nation could be accomplished, followed in relatively short order by reports indicating that the Department of Justice is already considering a lawsuit that could have just that goal.