Songkick further alleges that the information Mead obtained was then presented to the Live Nation hierarchy, including Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and Ticketmaster president of North America Jared Smith, Billboard reported.
Songkick assets that Mead took as many as 85,000 documents with him when he exited Crowdsurge in 2012, including "a suite of proprietary service offerings financial information, such as ticket sales, merchandise revenues, quarterly profitability, and forecasts of various kinds cost and pricing data customer information and other non-public information of economic value" according to the complaint obtained by Billboard. LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) - In the latest twist in their long-simmering antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and their Ticketmaster subsidiary, indie ticketing company Songkick is now alleging that they are victims of hacking and data theft.Īccording to Billboard, Songkick has amended legal filings to allege that a former CrowdSurge executive and current Ticketmaster employee, Stephen Mead, illicitly gained access to Crowdsurge's computers to obtain trade secrets and confidential information that he then provided to Ticketmaster.
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