Today’s lesson: Don’t underestimate the staying power of DC’s Free Britney advocates, who are back to organizing.
This coming Tuesday at 10 a.m., a small organization known as Free Britney America will hostoutside the US Capitol at the corner of Constitution Avenue NW and First Street NE, where they’ll urge Congress to break up the ticketing giant.
At this point, you may be wondering—what type of beef can Free Britney fans possibly have with Ticketmaster? Apparently, the bad blood can be traced back to 2010 when Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, another ticketing behemoth that the protest’s organizers, Melanie Carlson and Cassandra Dumas, say profited from Spears’s conservatorship.
“Our research into Britney’s conservatorship found that Live Nation was a central player in monetizing her abusive conservatorship,” says a statement from Carlson and Dumas included in a press release announcing the protest. “Furthermore, we assert that the inordinate power that Live Nation has across the music industry secures a culture of silence around the abuse of Britney Spears and other artists.”But Live Nation’s treatment of Spears isn’t why it’s currently under Congressional scrutiny.
he Senate Judiciary Committee will revisit the two companies’ 2010 merger and analyze the lack of competition within the ticketing industry during a hearing titled “That’s The Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment.” The hearing was largely prompted by a somewhat recent debacle involving Taylor Swift and her devoted fanbase of Swifties. Last November, Ticketmaster’s site appeared to either crash or freeze for an overwhelming number of fans as they tried to buy tickets for the singer’s
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