Jeremy Hunt delivered his first full budget statement as the UK government’s Chancellor Of The Exchequer yesterday, with plans to boost pensions, provide better childcare support and ease the cost of living crisis. These have drawn both criticism and praise. However, within the music industry, various organisations have been lining up to deride the politician […]
The Cure’s Robert Smith has responded to criticism about ticket fees for shows on their upcoming North American tour, which in some cases exceed the price of the actual tickets being sold. The band, he said, had opted to sell tickets though Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system in order to limit the number that ended up […]
Another politician has hit out at TikTok, though specifically about the way it is treating the music community rather than the customary concerns about whether or not the Chinese government has access to the video sharing app’s user-data via its China-based owner Bytedance. Damian Collins MP – a Conservative member of Parliament who had a […]
Secondary ticketing platform StubHub has hit out at proposals made by Live Nation under the banner the Fair Ticketing Act, which support stronger regulation of the secondary ticketing market in the US. StubHub says that the Act is purely designed to strengthen the dominance of Live Nation and its Ticketmaster business – as well as […]
New York’s Attorney General Letitia James has sent a letter to MSG Entertainment following reports that the company is using facial recognition technology at the venues it operates in New York City to identify and deny entry to lawyers who work for law firms currently involved in any litigation against the business. Reports began circulating […]
A coroner has criticised Qatari authorities for their “limited assistance” in his inquiry into the death of a British woman killed in a hit-and-run car crash in Doha.
Hipgnosis chief Merck Mercuriadis has criticised the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority for, as he sees it, confirming the issues faced by artists and songwriters in the music streaming economy, but then choosing to do nothing about them. The CMA undertook a study of the digital music market following the inquiry into the economics of […]