{"id":68497,"date":"2026-03-09T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/live-nation-reaches-surprise-settlement-with-justice-department-in-antitrust-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:14:17","slug":"live-nation-reaches-surprise-settlement-with-justice-department-in-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/live-nation-reaches-surprise-settlement-with-justice-department-in-antitrust-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation reaches surprise settlement with justice department in antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live Nation will pay $200m to states in lawsuit, and Ticketmaster will open parts of platform to rival companies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Live Nation, which owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/ticketmaster\">Ticketmaster<\/a>, has reached a surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/09\/live-nation-reaches-settlement-with-doj-in-antitrust-fight-00818564\">settlement<\/a> with the Department of Justice in its antitrust case just one week after the trial began.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was announced during a court hearing Monday morning. Under the agreement, Live Nation will pay roughly $200m in damages to states that participated in the lawsuit, and Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/09\/live-nation-reaches-settlement-with-doj-in-antitrust-fight-00818564\">reported<\/a> Politico.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/09\/live-nation-settlement-antitrust-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Nation will pay $200m to states in lawsuit, and Ticketmaster will open parts of platform to rival companies Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, has reached a surprise settlement with the Department of Justice in its antitrust case just one &#8230; <a title=\"Live Nation reaches surprise settlement with justice department in antitrust case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/live-nation-reaches-surprise-settlement-with-justice-department-in-antitrust-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Live Nation reaches surprise settlement with justice department in antitrust case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}