Brazil’s federal customer defense firm(Senacon) has actually purchased 5 ticketing platforms to stop helping with resales ahead of BTS’3 São Paulo reveals.
StubHub, TicketSwap, Viagogo, BuyTicket, and FunBuyNet have actually all been bought to be examined by the federal government for supposedly stopping working to reduce danger for customers. The K-pop band is bringing their record-breaking ARIRANG World Tour to the Estádio do MorumBIS for 3 nights on October 28th, 30th, and 31st, with an anticipated participation of over 200,000 fans.
The federal government’s order declares that the 5 business broke requirements around openness, overall rate disclosures, and problem and cancellation channels. Senacon has actually provided the websites simply 72 hours to stop the operation of ticket resales within Brazil, and has actually set a day-to-day fine of BRL 100,000 (around $18,621 USD) when it comes to non-compliance.
The order likewise directs the business to make sure that existing clients get their BTS tickets in a prompt way.
This enforcement versus ticket resellers begins the heels of Brazil’s brand-new “Taylor Swift law,” signed on August 31st by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The ticket decree mandates increased openness for ticket sellers’ marketing and needs websites to show the initial rate and all add-on charges, dealing with both main and secondary sellers. It likewise produces brand-new guidelines for virtual ticket lines, cancellation and ticket transfer rights, refunds in case of modifications to the occasion. To impose the brand-new guidelines, the law needs resale business to permit the Brazilian federal government to access their information.
In the United States, several federal ticketing reform expenses are presently pending. A lot of comparable to Brazil’s brand-new law is the proposed Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act (H.R. 1402.
The TICKET Act would need all sellers to plainly show the overall ticket rate plainly and detail all costs throughout the acquiring procedure. It has actually been slow-moving: in the time considering that it was gone by the Home on April 29, 2025, Maine and Washington D.C. have actually passed their own cost disclosure laws. Not all music market companies support the TICKET Act; the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and the National Independent Talent Organization (NITO) both prompted lawmakers to enhance the expense’s language.
Brazil’s brand-new steps look for to avoid mass purchases and speculative resale. In addition to the TICKET Act, a particular anti-speculative ticketing law was proposed in the United States Senate last month. The Guaranteeing Honest Ownership in Secondary Ticketing (GHOSTAct would avoid resellers from noting tickets that they do not really have. Presented by Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), the costs follows in the wake of several state-level laws passed just recently to fight the practice. At DMN’s newest count, 12 states and Washington D.C. have some sort of speculative ticketing restriction on the books.
Unlike Brazil, which is actively implementing its brand-new across the country ticket resale guidelines, the United States continues to count on a patchwork of state laws in the lack of federal action.
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