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# Live Music News Roundup: NIVA, new Maine Ticket Law, Scalpers
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/live-music-news-roundup-niva-new-maine-ticket-law-scalpers/
- Published: 2025-06-30T15:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-30T16:00:57.000Z
- Description: This latest live music news roundup includes 2025’s NIVA conference news, a tough new law in Maine, scalper financing and more.
- Author: Alana Bonilla
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, The Live Stage, music, Music Business, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

This latest live music news roundup includes 2025’s NIVA conference news, a tough new law in Maine, scalper financing and more.

#### Live Music News Roundup

- [**NIVA Day 1: State of Live study released as convention begins**](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-state-of-live-study-released-as-convention-begins/)
- [**NIVA Day 2: Indie Live Music Community Looks Forward**](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-25-day-2-indie-live-music-community-looks-forward/)
- [**NIVA Day 3: It’s A Wrap w/Frank Riley, Bandsintown, YouTube & More**](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-25-conference-day-3-frank-reilly-bandsintown-youtube-and-2026-announcment/)
- [**NIVA names new President and Board**](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-names-new-president-and-board/)
- [**How Ticket & Scalper Financing Inflates Prices and Excludes Fans**](https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/streaming-is-both-retail-and-radio-it-shouldnt-be/?ref=hypebot.com)
- [**New Maine concert ticket law is the toughest in America**](https://www.hypebot.com/maine-concert-ticket-law/)

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