Rejected petition “We demand the Government takes action to protect music, arts and sports fans"

It’s not the music industry that is being ripped-off by ticket touts, their associates and online facilitators – it’s music, arts and sports fans.
It is a practice that also deprives the Treasury of VAT, and performance copyright holders of royalties that should be paid on the mark-ups.

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More importantly to us, fans should be able to buy tickets at the prices that artistes and event organisers choose, not what the profiteers can extract from people. Ticket prices are set so the broadest spread of people can attend events, not just the wealthiest. Anonymous wheeler-dealers acquiring tickets and reselling them at huge mark-ups are distorting what should be a free and honest marketplace. We urge the government to take action to protect music, arts and sports fans.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/113398

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Date submitted 14 April 2016
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