Governor Newsom expressed reservations about the bill, potentially related to recent changes that may protect larger sellers such as StubHub<\/p>\n
California has become the latest state to enact legislation related to the ticket resale market. This past Sunday (September 27), Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1349<\/strong>, which bars ticket resellers from advertising, listing, or selling \u201cghost tickets,\u201d which are tickets they don\u2019t have in their possession at the time of sale.<\/p>\n The law bans software that can subvert ticket limits and bypass queues.<\/p>\n The law also bans deceptive websites and ads that make resellers look like authorized marketplaces.<\/p>\n Violating the law can result in misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n The law faced last-minute changes frowned upon by the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Updates included exempting sports teams and venues that manage their own tickets from the law.<\/p>\n Resale marketplaces are also now excluded from the definition of a speculative ticket seller.<\/p>\n NIVA claimed that the law now protected larger resellers such as StubHub.<\/p>\n Newsom: \u201cWhile there may be good reasons for exempting certain sellers from the bill\u2019s provisions, such a carve-out deserves further discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n Stephen Parker, Executive Director of NIVA<\/strong>: \u201c[AB 1349] puts the small businesses and nonprofits that put on shows every night at risk. And, it endangers fans\u2019 economic well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n Brian Berry, Executive Director of Ticket Policy Forum, which represents StubHub and other resellers: <\/strong>\u201cAB 1349 bans the sale of speculative tickets, including on resale marketplaces. Any other interpretation is clearly divorced from the text of the law and from reality. Our members will of course comply with the speculative ticketing ban and the many other new requirements that come with this new law.\u201d<\/p>\n This article was written with information sourced from the LA Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1349 to ban ghost tickets and bots, though independent venues criticize late exemptions for major resellers.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-policy-legal","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n