BUtterfield 8 41,509 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 An Oregon music festival is suing Coachella, which begins Friday, as well as organizers AEG Presents and Goldenvoice, arguing the festival's radius clauses restricting where artists can play before and after the California festival violates anti-trust and unfair competition laws and creates "an illegal monopoly in the market for live music festival performances." Lawyers for Soul’d Out Music Festival founders Nicholas Harris and Haytham Abdulhadi say they had approached TDE artist SZA to play this year's event but were turned down because of the radius clause, barring her from playing other West Coast states. The Soul’d Out festival, by comparison, takes place April 18-22. Lawyers for Harris and Abdulhadi argue Coachella organizers are allegedly engaging in "an unlawful restraint on trade, meant to use Coachella’s market power in the music festival market to suppress competition by other festivals." According to an alleged copy of the radius clause, included in the lawsuit, artists playing this year's festival are restricted from playing any festival or themed event in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington or Arizona from December 15, 2017, until May 7, 2018. Aldrich argues radius clause agreements hurt smaller cities and festival programmers and don't provide many benefits to Coachella since the event sells out months in advance. Aldrich is accusing Goldenvoice and AEG of violating anti-trust statues by "unreasonably restricting price and cost of competition among live concert venues" and "limiting entry or expansion of competitors" in "the states of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, or Arizona" which they allege hurts fans and smaller concert promoters. Aldrich is also asking the court to throw out radius clause agreements because they're allegedly an unlawful restraint on trade under California law, as well as claims of unfair competition and intentional interference. https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8300494/coachella-lawsuit-radius-clause-anticompetetive-behavior?__twitter_impression=true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borislshere 53,085 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Coachella being trash? What's new? Sucks that so many of my faves continue playing there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 110,010 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 LMAO petty business decision and not more. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ hating pop music doesn't make you deep (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimisaMonster 31,073 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 "According to an alleged copy of the radius clause, included in the lawsuit, artists playing this year's festival are restricted from playing any festival or themed event in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington or Arizona from December 15, 2017, until May 7, 2018." Daaaaaang for real???? Stream my new single, 💜"Heartbeat"💜, on Spotify! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 74,299 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 December to May and across the whole west coast is extreme tbh so they should lessen that up, but I get where Coachella is coming from too so I don’t think it’s a totally bogus thing of them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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River 117,734 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 They are just jealous that Gaga played with Coachella and not with them.. So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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