Topic
ticket resale
14 published works
Close-Ups
A Legal Ticket Thicket: Two Proposed Laws
Ticket sellers, resellers, and consumers in California should be aware of two bills making their way through the legislature that could vastly change how secondary ticket markets work in California.…
SALT Shaker
Kicked out of the stadium: The Wisconsin Court of Appeals finds StubHub’s ticket resales subject to sales tax
By Jonathan Feldman, Daniel Hopper
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld a sales tax assessment against StubHub for the sale of tickets made through StubHub’s online marketplace. Between 2008 and 2013, more than $150 million…
State AG Blog
State AG News: Consumer Protection, SAFE for Kids Act September 11-17, 2025
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from September…
Louisiana Law Blog
Swifties, Seamheads, and Senators Unite Around Fans First Act
For years, fans who want to see their favorite performers and teams have been faced with the luck of the draw or the challenge of negotiating the secondary ticket market.…
Texas Law Blog
Swifties, Seamheads, and Senators Unite Around Fans First Act
For years, fans who want to see their favorite performers and teams have been faced with the luck of the draw or the challenge of negotiating the secondary ticket market.…
Ad Law Access
FTC Files First BOTS Act Cases
On Friday, January 22, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission settled charges with three ticket brokers for violating the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, which was passed in 2015. These…
Tilting the Scales
Selling What You Don’t Have…What Happened to my Super Bowl Tickets?
By Drew York
Thursday before Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix Ima Goen Nomattawatta, a huge Patriots fan, found an online broker Izzure Scalp with Super Bowl tickets for $2,500 apiece. Not believing that…
ContractsProf Blog
New Spinal Tap Scholarship
The University of Tennessee ContractsProf Gregory M. Stein has just posted Will Ticket Scalpers Meet the Same Fate as Spinal Tap Drummers? The Sale and Resale of Concert and Sports Tickets on…
PropertyProf Blog
Stein on the Transferability of Concert Tickets
Gregory Stein (Tennessee) has posted Will Ticket Scalpers Meet the Same Fate as Spinal Tap Drummers? The Sale and Resale of Concert and Sports Tickets on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Some…
ContractsProf Blog
Ticketmaster and Those Pesky Bots
Last week, I mentioned a California bill addressing the issue of ticket resales and secondary marketplaces. I think that the primary problem for consumers is not that these secondary marketplaces…