“It’s really important for us to be at the forefront on the sustainability and inclusion questions, to inspire others and help with all these things. If we don’t have a sustainable future, we may not have a future at all.”
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On this page, you can find the latest news from the Live DMA network and updates on our current projects and activities.
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In order to better understand a live music event’s carbon emission, and to take action upon it, many organisations have started to measure their carbon footprint. These researches led to interesting results, notably that the most carbon-emitting poles of organising an event are the travels, first of audiences as well as those of artists, especially…
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Live DMA prepared these thematic resource sheets so as to give some keys to live music actors on the opportunities, challenges and current questioning of livestreaming practices. After COVID and the restrictions on live music events, a rise in livestreamed concerts could be noticed. This phenomenon was also pushed by some public funding bodies, which…
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Carbon offsetting has been seen as a solution for many companies, including festivals, to compensate for their carbon emissions and reach carbon neutrality. This article aims to investigate this trend and provide the keys to a good and virtuous use of carbon offsetting, and more particularly carbon sequestration through the planting of trees. Definitions Carbon…
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2018 The WHO releases the Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European region “The main purpose of these guidelines is to provide recommendations for protecting human health from exposure to environmental noise originating from various sources: transportation (road traffic, railway and aircraft) noise, wind turbine noise and leisure noise. Leisure noise in this context refers to…
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In February 2019, Live DMA organized a Working Group on the topic of sound regulations in Europe. The aim of this Working Group was to achieve an inventory of the various sound regulations ruling the European live music scenes and exchange on the various difficulties these regulations bring to the live music sector. This Working Group highlighted…
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2022 marked the return of live music after a harsh period of silence, bringing back already existing challenges but also new ones. The European live music sector continues its hard work to encourage the audience to come back and enjoy a concert, festival or a club night together in a safe and welcoming place. Professionals of…
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THE LINK BETWEEN ARTISTS AND VENUES Authors Rights Societies or Copyrights Societies, are the link between creators (e.g. artists) and the services and platforms (e.g. venues, clubs and festivals) who spread their work. Creators and other rightsholders of artistic works entrust Author Rights Societies to grant licences on their behalf. As such, Author Rights Societies…
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Setting-up a concert means, first of all, welcoming artists. When it comes to sustainability, live music venues can implement many things to welcome artists and their staff in a way that is comfortable for them AND respectful of the planet. This can be done in-house by the venue, as shown by the venues who took…
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“It’s all about sharing and cooperation!”
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“We need organisations like Live DMA to support our activities. During COVID, it was important to have Live DMA meetings so that we could learn what was going on in the other countries, and that was very helpful when it came to the lobby work on the local level”
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“We have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Live DMA, a network which was created in 2012 by venue networks from all over Europe. The purpose was to share knowledge and skills with each other, and to set up common projects, and I think we’ve succeeded in doing that!”
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“I learned to collect and process data with good quality, and also I learned the importance of data to start a dialogue with institutions. Good data gave ACCES a lot of recognition”
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ʻʼThanks to Live DMAʼs Survey, we showed our government that the more a venue is subsidized, the more money they generate. The Ministry of Culture had little knowledge of our sector. So to present these figures from different European countries was crucial in re-valorising our subsidies.”