Band Managers Unite to Seek Cut of Online Secondary Ticket Sales

Artist management firms representing more than 400 performing artists, including Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and KT Tunstall, have joined together to try to secure artists a share of secondary online concert ticket sales. The Resale Rights Society (RRS) is targeting companies such as eBay, Viagogo and Seat Exchange. While the RRS hopes to finalize agreements on levies with online ticket exchanges by March 2008, the group is sure to face stiff opposition from the ticket exchanges. "What they are saying here is no different to (saying) that if you had a used Ford car you should pay Ford a tax when you sold it," Viagogo founder Eric Baker told Reuters.
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