![]() ![]() “This is in spite of the fact that Ticketmaster has a contract granting them the privilege of selling their tickets on an exclusive basis.” “SCI essentially wants to skim the best, most easily sold tickets, and leave Ticketmaster and its clients with the job of selling the rest,” TM said in a statement at the time. Ticketmaster counter-sued SCI Ticketing, stating in its response that, while it historically did allow a degree of fan club ticketing (10 percent being the industry norm), by demanding large allocations of tickets - as much as 50 percent of inventory - SCI had “attempted to break valid contracts for its own self-promotion and monetary gain,” and that SCI Ticketing was trying to get a “’free ride’” on the Ticketmaster infrastructure. (This was before the 2010 merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation at that time, Ticketmaster was a division of InterActiveCorp., nor had it yet merged with Irving Azoff’s Front Line Management, which was completed in 2010.) In the 2003 lawsuit, SCI Ticketing, a partnership between the band and its affiliated touring operation Madison House (now part of AEG Live and co-producer of the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows this summer) alleged that Ticketmaster had flexed its muscle by directing client venues and promoters to stop supplying SCI Ticketing with inventory for SCI and other clients. ![]() Songkick Sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster for Antitrust ![]()
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