Free training for live music venues on music rights and live event regulations.
A Note Legali project funded by the European Union through the LIVEMX programme.
Organized with the support of KeepOn Live.
What is
Sounds Rights?
Sounds Rights is a free educational programme aimed at live music venues and their operators.
The goal? To provide practical, clear, and up-to-date tools for properly managing music rights, contracts, ticketing, taxation, and social security.
Today, those organising live music face complex regulations daily, documents to sign, licences to activate, and contributions to pay.
Sounds Rights was created to provide clarity, protect work, and improve the sustainability of live venues.
Sounds Rights is a project dedicated to live clubs, festivals and music series, companies or associations whose main activity is organising concerts.
It is also open to individual professionals, provided they have a VAT number and can be associated with a live music venue.
Who is
it for?
What does
it offer?
– 13 lessons on key topics: 10 online + 3 in person
– Dedicated digital platform with videos, articles, materials, and updates
– Downloadable digital guide
– Open Badge with digital certificate for those who complete the programme
– Networking events with artists, collecting societies, and industry operatorscollecting e operatori del settore
– Copyright and neighbouring rights
– Relations with collecting societies (SIAE, SCF, Nuovo IMAIE…)
– Entertainment contracts
– Ticketing
– Fiscal and social security obligations for venues
– Licences and sanctions: what to avoid and what to know
– Sustainable models for artist management and bookings
Topics
covered
When?
September 2025 – March 2026
Online classes and in-person meetings during industry events such as KeepOn Live Fest and other gatherings in Milan and Bologna.
Registration deadline: July 21, 2025.
– To know what to do, how, and when
– To avoid costly errors and improve event management
– To protect artists, venues, and operators
– To be more competitive, even at a European level
– To join a national and European network of informed operators
Why
participate?
How it
works?
- 1) Register for free
- 2) If selected, receive credentials to access the platform
- 3) Attend the online lessons and the in-person events
- 4) 4. Download the guide and receive the Open Badge
A European project
Sounds Rights is a project by Note Legali APS, a non-profit association for the protection of musicians, financed by the European programme LIVEMX – Creative Europe. It aims to make live music more informed, fair, and sustainable in Italy and Europe. Sounds Rights benefits from the support of KeepOn LIVE for engaging live music venues.
Submit your application
- Limited places
- Priority given to the first 30 registered live music venues
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