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Academy sues firm selling $175,000 Oscar package
Buy a $175,000 package to attend the Oscars and you might buy yourself trouble, lawyers for the Academy Awards warn.
The advertising of such packages — including four tickets to the upcoming 81st annual Academy Awards and a hotel stay in Los Angeles, California — has prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to sue an Arizona-based company.
The Academy accused the company Experience 6 of selling "black-market" tickets, because tickets to the lavish movie awards show cannot be transferred or sold.
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