To sign up to the industry charter email Emmy at emmy@aiforg.com or call +44(0)208 994 5599.
"While it is not unusual to hear certain sections of the industry lash out against secondary sellers, the [AIF Fair Ticketing] charter looks to be the most significant united front against the market...The combined voice of the industry organisations speaking out against ticket touting is a powerful lobbying tool, and it is as loud as it has ever been since former culture secretary Tessa Jowell decided not to outlaw the practice in 2006." POLLSTAR
The Fair Ticketing Charter
We the undersigned believe that the growth of ticket-touting online - so-called 'secondary ticketing’ - is bad for fans and bad for live entertainment.
Ticket touting means real fans are deprived of the opportunity to attend events and see artists they love while speculators cash in.
We believe there are strong arguments for legislation to curb the activities of unofficial ticket-sellers.
Until such legislation is enacted we believe the entire Live Entertainment Industry should further increase its efforts to protect fans.
We affirm that we will be transparent with the pricing and distribution of tickets for events that we control.
We restate our commitment to adopting ticketing processes and technologies which ensure tickets reach the hands of real fans rather than touts.
We call on secondary ticket sellers to cease and desist selling tickets for events we control.
We call on consumers to boycott ticket touts.
Signatories:
13 Artists
A Greener Festival
Annie Lennox
Association of Independent Festivals
Association of Festival Organisers
Bingley Music Live
Britsol Ticket Shop
Chambers Management (promoter of comedy talent and mgr. of Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle and Jack Whitehall)
Chris Difford
Coda Agency
Crispin Hunt
Crowd Surge
Dave Rowntree
Dawson Breed Music
Ed O'Brien
eFestivals
Featured Artists Coalition
Festaxi
Festival Awards Ltd
Festival UK
Fran Healy
Free Trade Agency
Gotye
Graphite Media
Hospital Records
Howard Jones
ID&C
Intelligent Venue Solutions
John Fairs
JCF Management
Kate Nash
Kilimanjaro Live
Lucy Pullin
Mark Kelly
Master Shortie
Name PR
Nick Mason
Ninja Tune
Phantom Music
Portishead
Radiohead
Rob Da Bank
Rumer
Sandbag
Sandie Shaw
Sharon Hodgson MP
Skiddle
Sunday Best Recordings
Steve McCarthy-Hunt
Twickets
Value Added Talent
Virtual Festivals
Wikifestivals
Wildlife Entertainment (rep. Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane)
We Got Tickets
XRay Touring
Beat-Herder Festival (The)
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Bestival
Blissfields
Camp Bestival
Cornbury
Deer-Shed Festival
Eden Sessions
End Of The Road Festival
Evolution Festival
Festibelly
Folk on the Water
Glade Festival
Glasgowbury
Glastonbudget
Greenbelt Festival
Green Man Festival
Hebridean Celtic Festival
Imaginadium
In The Woods Festival
Kendal Calling
Larmer Tree Festival
LeeFest
London Green Fair (The)
London Summer Jam
Loud Sound
Magic Loungeabout (The)
Meltdown Festival
No Direction Home Festival
Nozstock the Hidden Valley Festival
Open House Festival
Outside:Inside
Secret Garden Party
Shambala Festival
Sonisphere
Summer Sundae Weekender
Stockton Weekender
SWN Festival
Tramlines
Truck
Wakestock
WOMAD
Y-Not Festival
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