{"id":5015,"date":"2015-02-26T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/26\/uk-government-against-concert-tickets-fraud\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:50:44","slug":"uk-government-against-concert-tickets-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/02\/26\/uk-government-against-concert-tickets-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government against concert tickets fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d1\/EU-United_Kingdom.svg\/250px-EU-United_Kingdom.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" \/><br \/>Conservative peer Lord Moynihan tabled an  amendment to the consumer rights bill that will ensure that fans buying  tickets from companies such as Viagogo, Stubhub and Seatwave will know  exact details of what they are buying while efforts will also be made to  stop individual touts buying large amounts of tickets and reselling  them at inflated prices.   <!--more-->  <br \/> Details which will be legally required to be provided by ticketing  companies include the row, seat, face value, age restrictions and name  of the ticket&#8217;s original seller, none of which are currently required by  law to be provided. It is hoped that these measures will help stamp out  the sale of counterfeit tickets. The amendment will be enacted when the  consumer rights bill becomes law later this year. <\/p>\n<p> Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2015\/feb\/25\/touts-suffer-blow-government-backs-regulation-secondary-ticketing?CMP=share_btn_tw\">The Guardian<\/a>,  Moynihan said: &#8220;One of the major reasons why you can\u2019t get tickets for  high-demand events as a member of the public is because there\u2019s  specialised software available to touts which sweeps up the supply  within a nanosecond of them going on sale. Then those tickets are made  available on the secondary market at sometimes five or 10 times the  price. From now on that process is restricted, because you have to have  the seat number, row number and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> A spokesperson for Viagogo said: &#8220;It&#8217;s business as usual at Viagogo.  Ticket resale was legal yesterday, is legal today, and will still be  legal tomorrow. The only practical implications of the new legislation  are that we might need to publish some additional information about the  tickets on our site later this year, but we were already working with  the Government on that. What\u2019s important is that the basic principle of  being able to buy and sell tickets on secure platforms like ours has not  changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The amendment, expected to be made law within three months, also puts a  duty on culture secretary Sajid Javid to review the entire secondary  ticketing market within the next year.<span><\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative peer Lord Moynihan tabled an amendment to the consumer rights bill that will ensure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}