The call for a UK ticket touting ban

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including a call from the FanFair Alliance campaign group against ticket touting for the introduction of legislation to ban the for-profit resale of tickets in the UK, and criticism of Deezer’s new proposals for ‘artist-centric’ royalty payments.

SECTION TIMES
01: Ticket resale (00:04:13)
02: Deezer (00:11:41)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• FanFair Alliance calls for ban of for-profit ticket touting in the UK
• Believe criticises ‘reverse Robin Hood’ elements of Deezer's new artist-centric model for payments

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