Lauren Feiner

We can talk about it at a later time.

The one I want to talk about with you today is the Live Nation case.

The United States government is suing Live Nation, which most people know of, as Ticketmaster for antitrust claims.

This seemed like a winner.

No one is happy with Ticketmaster.

This case sort of dates back to Taylor Swift and the Heiress tour.

Like, it was very hard to buy an heiress tour ticket.

The sites crashed.

Everyone said, well, Ticketmaster is a monopoly.

And we stumbled our way into an antitrust case.

At a very high level, what is the Department of Justice alleging against Live Nation slash Ticketmaster?

So if you're an artist, you have to sign up with Live Nation in order to get access to the venues that it owns.

If you run an independent venue and you want to get artists to come put on a show, you have to sign up to use Ticketmaster for your tickets to get access to those artists.

And if you just want ticketing, you maybe have to accept Ticketmaster's

Offers of artists and rates in order to run their ticketing platform like they're in control of all of it.

What has been the argument that's legal?

Just that it's driving up prices, that it's a bad experience when you're trying to buy a Taylor Swift ticket.

What has been the main this is bad argument that the government has presented?

You were in the courtroom while the DOJ legal team was presenting its case.

What did you learn from the evidence that came out of trial?