Live Nation and junior ticketing company Ticketmaster are facing a lawsuit over their mobile ticketing technology.
In a suit filed last week, at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, EChanging Barcode LLC alleged that Ticketmaster’s SafeTix platform amounts to an infringement of its own rotating, encrypted barcode technology, which is designed to prevent ticket fraud through screenshots.
EChanging is also pushing forward with a separate lawsuit in the same court against Major League Baseball’s digital media arm over an alleged infringement of the same patent.
This is the second lawsuit that has been levelled at Live Nation and Ticketmaster in as many months. In September, the Federal Trade Commission accused the two companies of using illegal ticket resale tactics and costing customers millions of dollars in the process.
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) also formally called for the breakup of Live Nation Entertainment in September, arguing that the events giant’s combined market power was stifling competition and undermining smaller, independent promoters.
