Submitted on Thursday 14th April 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 19th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
“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.
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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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/113398
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