Brazil introduces law to criminalize ticket scalping

A lawmaker in Brazil is proposing a “Taylor Swift law” to criminalize ticket scalping.

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00:00Ticket scalpers in Brazil could face up to four years in prison if this proposed Taylor Swift law

00:05is passed. Brazilian lawmaker Simone Marchetto introduced the bill after fans say scalpers

00:09made it nearly impossible to obtain tickets to the Latin American leg of Swift's Eras tour.

00:14Quote, I have an 11 year old at home and this is all they're talking about at school. I received

00:18many requests to do something and decided to present this bill, Marchetto told a Brazilian

00:22newspaper. The bill would criminalize ticket scalping with penalties of up to four years

00:26in prison and fees up to 100 times the original ticket price. Marchetto said she has obtained

00:31the necessary signatures to expedite her bill and plans to present it alongside the National

00:35Secretary for Consumer Protection.