Thursday 26 January 2017 at the Sala Grande of the Franco Parenti Theatre in Milan the first international conference against secondary ticketingdesigned and produced by Barley Arts Promotion and which also includes the selected and qualified participation of international operators who have long been on the front line in the war against this cancer that has hit the entire international entertainment and sports industry hard.
The event is dedicated to the international system of speculative resale of tickets for live music and entertainment events on the secondary market, a phenomenon that has been present for several years in Italy as well, but which exploded with the general public last autumn with the now notorious 'Coldplay case', which then led to journalistic enquiries and legal actions that shook the Italian live promoting scene.
Among the objectives of the conference is the establishment of a stable and permanent structure of No Secondary Ticketing Observatoryin the style of the FPM - Federation against Music and Multimedia Piracy - which is responsible for monitoring the market by identifying cases of secondary ticketing and reporting them to the Judiciary, informing consumers about the risks of secondary ticketing and giving visibility to anti-secondary operations.
In addition, together with a small number of people and professionals, a draft statutory code of ethics was drawn up to help re-found the entire live music industry on a new ethical basis, which will be presented and commented on during the conference.
The meeting, which will take place in two sessions (morning and afternoon), will be attended by artists, agents, managers, media, producers and promoters, SIAE, ticketing companies, representatives of institutions, consumer associations and concert audiences.
Below are the modalities of participation, subject to availability.
La participation for insiders provides for their registration by sending the request to [email protected] by 24 January 2017.
The publicinstead, will be selected via Rockol through the questionnaire below:
1) How many live concerts do you go to in a year?
2) How much do you spend on average to buy your ticket?
3) If you could spend less, would you see more concerts?
4) Have you ever bought tickets on the secondary market?
5) Do you find it fair that the secondary market exists?
6) Do you find it right to oppose the secondary market?
7) Is music only emotion or also culture?
8) Can live music help our places, towns and cities to become known?
9) Do you find today's live music facilities adequate?
10) Would you like to contribute to improving the situation?
Le replies to the questionnaire should be sent in by 24 January to the e-mail address [email protected]together with personal details (name, surname, sex, age and city of origin).
