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Face the Music: The Time to Support the Fans First Act Is Now
In a Billboard guest column, Eventbrite Co-Founder & CEO Julia Hartz, together with National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) Executive Director Stephen Parker, calls for Congress to pass the Fans First Act. The bipartisan legislation will bring enforcement and transparency, prohibit deceptive websites, disclose resellers, and ban speculative ticketing.
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We’re One Step Closer to Comprehensive Ticketing Reform!
Responding to your voices and others throughout the country, the U.S. House of Representatives strengthened and passed H.R. 3950, the TICKET Act. Now the U.S. Senate must pass its bipartisan Fans First Act (S. 3457). The Fans First Act builds upon the TICKET Act with additional provisions to wholly ban speculative (fake) tickets, prohibit deceptive website imagery, increase mandatory reporting of illegal BOTS, require itemization of the ticket price and fees, and provide meaningful enforcement.
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Event Creators Promote Ticketing Reform
Hear from event creators about the importance of comprehensive live event ticketing reform and how you can engage with your own members of Congress.
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About Eventbrite Advocacy
How We Take Action
Making an impact requires a multi-faceted approach. For each key policy area, we:
- Communicate directly with lawmakers to help them better understand event creator, consumer, and community needs.
- Rally our event creators and consumers to actively support legislation that can advance key public policy goals.
- Amplify our voices.
- Provide resources to raise awareness of issues and opportunities that can affect positive policy change.
How to Use This Resource
We know you are busy. We hope this Hub makes it easy to quickly take action on issues that matter to you. Here’s what you can do next:
- Take action today by learning more about each policy issue and how it impacts your business.
- Contact your lawmakers and tell them why these issues are important. For each policy priority, we have provided sample language and emails you can copy or customize to advocate with your lawmakers.
- Share this resource with your networks. These priorities directly support both event creators and live event fans, and our voices are stronger together!