"Scalpers" are rampant at the concert, DPP legislator Lai Ruilong (second from left) and others today demanded that the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Culture complete the revision of the "Cultural and Creative Industry Development Law" as soon as possible.

(Courtesy of Larry Long Congressional Office)

[Reporter Xie Junlin/Taipei Report] In view of the rampant "scalpers" at the concert, DPP legislator Lai Ruilong invited two conveners of the Education and Culture Committee of the Legislative Yuan today (15th): DPP legislator Fan Yun and the People's Party Legislator Zhang Qilu jointly held a press conference, requesting the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Culture to complete the revision of the "Cultural and Creative Industry Development Law" as soon as possible, and to add the "Scalper Clause", and hoped to pass the third reading in April this year to protect consumer rights.

The recovery of Taiwan’s economy after the epidemic has driven the explosion of the arts and cultural performance industry. Domestic and foreign artists have taken over the show this year. Recently, Zhang Huimei, Mayday, Korean group BLACKPINK, Gao Wuren, Zhou Tanghao, etc. have come to Kaohsiung to sing. Among them, the Korean group BLACKPINK scalpers shouted online The price is up to 400,000 yuan.

The concert bursting caused scalpers to run rampant.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture, the transaction prices of scalped tickets are 2 to 4 times higher than the original ticket prices, accounting for 3% to 5% of the sales volume of the concert.

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Lai Ruilong pointed out that the current behavior of selling scalpers is regulated by the "Social Order Maintenance Law", and the maximum fine can only be less than 18,000 yuan, which cannot be effectively deterred. Selling tickets, the court has already violated the social security law and did not impose punishment; if the investigation is changed to the crime of forging documents, the crime of hindering the use of computers, and the crime of fraud, it will be difficult to admit that the computer of the ticket company was paralyzed and other reasons. sue.

Lai Ruilong said that according to the data in the past five years, 36 cases were transferred in accordance with the social protection law, and a total of 18 cases were sentenced by the court; only 2 cases of obstructing computer use were accepted and neither was prosecuted, which shows that the existing law cannot effectively deter scalpers.

Lai Ruilong believes that the "Cultural and Creative Industry Development Law", the Ministry of Culture's regulation on concert ticket management, should be included in the relevant ticket management regulations to provide a legal basis for punishing scalpers.

He has proposed a draft amendment to impose a fine, a fine, or fixed-term imprisonment on those who increase the price and resell to obtain improper benefits, and those who buy tickets illegally.

Zhang Qilu said that Japan stipulates that "reselling behavior without the consent of the organizer" will be punished with a prison term of less than one year or a fine of less than 1 million yen.

In the future, we will actively support the revision of the law, and hope that it will be read for the third time during this session.

Fan Yun believes that the real-name system for large-scale concerts is the solution to preventing scalpers from the source, and he can refer to the experience of Japan and South Korea.

For example, Japan has the "Improper Ticket Resale Prohibition Act" to regulate arts and sports activities with "real-name ticket sales". Although South Korea has no specific law, many event organizers have already actively implemented the real-name system for admission, and have even adopted creative methods to prevent scalpers, such as The public reports the scalper ticket to the organizer, and if successful, they can directly get the ticket.

Wu Siyao, a member of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Committee and a member of the DPP legislator, suggested that for short-term goals, the Ministry of Culture should cooperate with the police and the Internet to effectively arrest the scalpers, and encourage the Ministry of Culture to set up an open and transparent ticket exchange platform to try out " "Real-name ticket purchase" provides policy incentives; the long-term goal is to cooperate across ministries and commissions to formulate specific laws for "scalpers" in various industries to comprehensively prevent blockages.

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