After the Olympic parenthesis, the Italian spotlight returns to Sanremo. Carlo Conti directs the 2026 edition, dedicated to Pippo Baudo, with a speech centered on music. The director has navigated initial controversies and debunked political rumors. RAI, to avoid incidents, has implemented clauses that hold artists accountable for their actions on stage.
The Development of a Television Risk Containment Protocol ⚖️
The technical novelty of this edition is not a sound or lighting system, but a contractual framework. The clauses introduced by RAI act as a real-time crisis management protocol. Their function is to delimit the space for artistic expression, transferring the legal and economic responsibility for unforeseen statements or gestures to the artists and their record labels, thus protecting advertising investments.
The Microphone Now Comes with an Adhesion Contract 📝
The Sanremo tradition of improvised speeches from the stage is numbered. Now, before singing a note, artists sign a document that probably equates an off-script comment with an economic penalty. We might see singers consulting their lawyers between one song and another, measuring every word with the same care as they tune their voice. Sanremo thus becomes an event where the riskiest lyric is not in the songs, but in Annex B of the contract.