{"id":987650,"date":"2026-03-02T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987650"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:22:06","slug":"ticket-policy-forum-statement-on-live-nation-ticketmaster-trial-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987650","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Policy Forum Statement on Live Nation-Ticketmaster Trial Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster kicks off with opening arguments in federal court in the Southern District of New York. The suit, led by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general, seeks to unwind the 2009 merger of the two companies, which the government\u00a0entities\u00a0claim has led to monopoly abuses. Brian Berry, executive director of The Ticket Policy Forum, which\u00a0represents\u00a0America\u2019s leading secondary ticketing marketplaces released the following statement ahead of opening statements: \u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><em>\u201cThe\u00a0break up\u00a0Ticketmaster\u00a0monopoly\u00a0trial\u00a0represents\u00a0the most important effort in decades to restore competition in the live event ticketing marketplace. While Live Nation has undoubtedly left no stone unturned in its efforts to\u00a0avoid\u00a0this day from coming,\u00a0finally\u00a0fans and every player in the industry from artist to venue to competing ticket seller\u00a0can\u00a0take\u00a0relief\u00a0now that this day is finally here.\u00a0Let the trial begin.\u00a0A\u00a0wrong can finally be\u00a0right when a jury delivers\u00a0a\u00a0verdict\u00a0ending\u00a0this marriage of two market-abusing companies that should never have been allowed in the first place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ticket Policy Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sbriesacher","author_link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}