The summit, organised by MusicTank, is being held at the University of Westminster, and comes in the wake of revelations on Channel 4's Dispatches programme earlier this year.
It will tackle issues raised by a Dispatches investigation in February, which found that
In response to growing calls for regulation of the secondary ticketing market, a panel at the MusicTank summit will discuss what legislation should be sought to improve the situation.
Keith Harris, chairman of MusicTank, said: "Four years ago when MusicTank first took on this issue, the alarm bells were ringing, but the government and the industry hit snooze. Now it's definitely time to wake up and get to work on solving this problem, before it's too late."
Christiaan Munro, director of ethical e-commerce and ticketing website Sandbag, will present a case study of Radiohead’s recent world tour at the summit. The band opted to used a face-value ticket exchange website,
Other speakers at the summit include representatives from consumer organisation Which? and Songkick, a website which allows fans to track music events.
Bestival founder Rob da Bank recently labelled those profiting from secondary ticketing as being motivated by "pure greed" and a
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