Group seeks cut of Web ticket sales

The group also wants to protect music fans by introducing a "kite-mark" scheme to prevent bogus tickets going on sale.

The Resale Rights Society is expected to meet for the first time before the end of January, 2008 and wants to finalise agreements with online ticket exchanges by the end of March.

But the exchanges are unimpressed.

Eric Baker, founder of www.viagogo.com, said that once an individual paid for a ticket, they owned it and could do with it what they wished.

"What they are saying here is no different to (saying) that if you had a used Ford car you should pay Ford a tax when you sold it," he told Reuters. "If I have a Harry Potter book to re-sell, do I pay J.K. Rowling twice?"

Baker said his Web site already worked with major musical acts who used it to auction tickets for charity.

"At Viagogo we work for the fans, and we are not going to support a proposal that taxes a fan."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)