Radiohead, The Verve, Other Bands Seek Piece of Ticket Scalpers’ Action

December 5th, 2007 · by Dan

With CD sales tanking, bands and their managers are looking to squeeze extra cash out of the live-music revenue stream by getting a piece of online ticket scalpers’ profits.

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    matt

    Jan 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    This is certainly an interesting development. They are going to pressure online services first to try and get a portion of their fees. The bands have an interesting argument, although as live ticket prices rise it is difficult to feel sorry for them if they don’t get a cut of secondary ticket sales too.

 

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