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Songkick says Mead, who currently works for Ticketmaster, took some 85, documents as well as "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.

Mead, currently on Ticketmaster's artist services division, allegedly used Songkick's data to create "a clone of CrowdSurge called Ticketmaster OnTour. The company uses its technology to ensure that artists sell more tickets directly to fans and reduce the number of tickets sold to scalpers.

Click here to get the free daily New York Business Journal newsletter and breaking-news alerts. Please Sign In and use this article's on page print button to print this article. Zaidi was the supervisor for Stephen Mead, a former CrowdSurge executive, according to news reports.

Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in the statement. A request for comment to Ticketmaster was not immediately answered Thursday. We are pleased that this matter is now resolved. Those documents included confidential business plans, strategic and financial information, contracts, client lists, and dozens of user names and passwords to confidential CrowdSurge tools. In , a Live Nation senior executive asked Mead to use his access during demonstrations at a company meeting in San Francisco where, in front of at least 14 coworkers, Mead logged into the CrowdSurge systems with his retained username and password access, the DOJ said.

Mead was promoted in and given a raise for his work. Help fund the local coverage you rely on. Back the extra reporting you need during this global pandemic. Dec 31, PM.