German industry renews calls for secondary ticketing crackdown

A coalition of German musicians, promoters, and industry associations have strengthened calls to the country’s government to impose strict regulation on the secondary ticketing market, calling it a “growing but solvable problem” in a new open letter to the governing coalition.

The letter comes from Pro Musik and the Federal Association of the Concert and Event Industry (BDKV), and is signed by a range of sector figures and artists including Die Toten Hosen, Nina Chuba, and Die Ärzte.

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