News - 17/12/2012

UK: artists support the Fair Ticketing Charter against secondary ticketing

UK: artists support the Fair Ticketing Charter against secondary ticketing

Rising tickets' price has been a big problem for the live music industry in the last decade - or more. To the point that a group of festival promoters founded AIF, alias Association of Independent Festivals, in the attempt to keep festival tickets at affordable prices.

AIF, then, recently created the Fair Ticketing Charter (also known as The Charter), a gathering of promoters and artists setting their position against the phenomenon of secondary ticketing: this document is increasingly being adopted by those across the live industry who wish to take a stand against profiteering across the secondary ticketing market, including several members of the FAC, UK's Featured Artists Coalition.
Until now almost 90 FAC members joined The Charter and among them we find big names such as Sandie Shaw, Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Mark Kelly (Marillion), Crispin Hunt, Annie Lennox, Chris Difford (Squeeze), Howard Jones, Fran Healy (Travis), Dave Rowntree (Blur), Radiohead, Bestival, Orbital and Secret Garden Party.

"AIF is delighted to see large parts of the live industry and now the artist community backing our Charter" commented AIF co-founder and vice chair Ben Turner. "It is time the music business stands united on this issue and this huge statement from FAC is a massive boost to the millions of music fans out there who are being misled by many promoters from around the world".

Below you can read the text of The Charter:

The Fair Ticketing Charter
We the undersigned believe that the growth of ticket-touting online - so-called 'secondary ticketing’ - is bad for fans and bad for live entertainment.
Ticket touting means real fans are deprived of the opportunity to attend events and see artists they love while speculators cash in.
We believe there are strong arguments for legislation to curb the activities of unofficial ticket-sellers.
Until such legislation is enacted we believe the entire Live Entertainment Industry should further increase its efforts to protect fans.
We affirm that we will be transparent with the pricing and distribution of tickets for events that we control.
We restate our commitment to adopting ticketing processes and technologies which ensure tickets reach the hands of real fans rather than touts.
We call on secondary ticket sellers to cease and desist selling tickets for events we control.
We call on consumers to boycott ticket touts.

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