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Decades of intensifying corporate concentration have turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Over the past two years, antitrust policymakers have worked to hold behemoths like Ticketmaster accountable for their exploitative business practices, and earlier this year, the Justice Department filed a suit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing the live music market. But to fully grasp just how pervasive the concert cartel's control over the music industry is, you have to look at how artists are exploited under corporate concentration.

Britney Spears' years-long conservatorship and exploitation, orchestrated by a revolving cast of music executives and fixers, was heartbreaking, but far from unique in the music industry, and while antitrust interventions have primarily focused on the venues that get shut out of Live Nation's vital supply of concert tours and music festivals, the artists who are the industry's lifeblood are left behind.

For our August 2024 print issue, Maureen Tkacik details just how pervasive artist exploitation is in the music industry, and asks if the antitrust regulators behind the Ticketmaster case can protect artists.

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