As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n'Event' means any professional concert, live entertainment event, professional sporting or athletic event, or professional theatrical production open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold.\n'Internet ticketing platform' means a marketplace or exchange that enables consumers to purchase and sell tickets to events.\n'Operator' means a person or subsidiary thereof that owns, operates, or controls a place of entertainment.\n'Primary ticket provider' means a provider of ticketing services, or an agent of such provider, that engages in the original sale of tickets for an event.\n'Purchaser' means an individual who purchases a ticket to an event.\n'Resale' means the sale of a ticket other than the original sale of a ticket by a primary ticket provider.\n'Reseller' means a person that sells or offers to sell tickets for resale.\n'Rights holder' means any person or entity that has the initial ownership rights to sell a ticket to an event for which tickets for entry by the public are required and does not include a primary ticket provider unless the primary ticket provider is also the rights nership rights to sell a ticket to an event for which tickets for entry by the public are required and does not include a primary ticket provider unless the primary ticket provider is also the rights holder.\n'URL' means the Uniform Resource Locator associated with an online website.\n2017, cc. 261, 268; 2023, cc. 304, 305.
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