{"id":2367287,"date":"2026-04-10T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2367287"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:46:09","slug":"jury-starts-deliberating-states-claim-that-live-nation-has-a-monopoly-on-concerts-and-ticketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jury-starts-deliberating-states-claim-that-live-nation-has-a-monopoly-on-concerts-and-ticketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury starts deliberating states’ claim that Live Nation has a monopoly on concerts and ticketing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jury deliberations began Friday in an antitrust case pitting 34 states against the concert giant Live Nation Entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The states argue in the civil case that the company and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, are monopolizing the industry and driving up prices to see live music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Live Nation contends there is more competition than ever and the company plays fair amid a U.S. booming concert business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Soon after starting deliberations the jury in Manhattan federal court told the judge it wanted to review certain testimony given at the five-week trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The states carried on with their case after the federal government settled last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Justice Department said it had won important concessions from Live Nation, particularly in the sale of tickets at dozens of the company\u2019s amphitheaters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A lawyer for the states said in closing arguments on Thursday that Live Nation controls 86% of the market for concerts and 73% of the overall market when sports events are included.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Live Nation\u2019s lawyer said the company isn\u2019t hiding from the fact that it\u2019s the biggest entertainment company and ticketer in the country. But, the lawyer said, \u201csuccess is not against the antitrust laws in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.middletownpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jury deliberations began Friday in an antitrust case pitting 34 states against the concert giant Live Nation Entertainment. The states argue in the civil case that the company and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, are monopolizing the industry and driving up prices to see live music. Live Nation contends there is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[460114,28075,345440,313298,456990,343163,318729,345436,345437,345438,396573,345439],"class_list":["post-2367287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-trial-deliberations","tag-manhattan","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30597-ap-business-news-f-wire","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-31995-ap-online-general-financial-business-news","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jury-starts-deliberating-states-claim-that-Live-Nation-has-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367289,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367287\/revisions\/2367289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}