Songkick claimed that Ticketmaster used its exclusive contracts with venues and its market power in venue ticketing to hamper rivals’ provision of artist presale ticketing services. ![]() Ticketmaster contracts with event venues to provide ticketing services. It contended that Live Nation and Ticketmaster were blocking its access to presale tickets and making it increasingly difficult to contract with artists to provide them with presale services. Songkick specialized in presales of concert tickets-selling batches of advance tickets to consumers, often as part of a fan club or other artist-led sale. Songkick’s suit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster was originally filed in 2015. ![]() Bates White provided expert support, helping Songkick reach a settlement of $110 million, plus an undisclosed sum for Live Nation to acquire some of Songkick’s technology assets and patents. Two weeks before trial was scheduled to begin, Songkick settled its antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation in Complete Entertainment Resources LLC v.
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