I don’t have a computer and/or internet access. Can I still submit notifications?

I don’t have a computer and/or internet access. Can I still submit notifications?

In order to use our online portal meine.gvl.de and submit your contribution notifications, you require a computer with internet access. Your contribution notifications are centrally stored in our system and automatically matched against the respective product data submitted by the users. This makes our work very efficient. A manual matching process between contributions received in writing and the respective product data would be very time-consuming and would entail high costs. We deal with money in a very responsible manner on behalf of our members.

Nevertheless, we offer performers who have no computer and/or internet access the possibility to provide their contribution notifications in writing. As we are a fiduciary collective management organisation, we hope you appreciate that we need to raise a processing fee for this additional effort. The fee level is currently being coordinated with our supervisory authority - the German Patent and Trademark Office.

Our new service provides support for you when you submit your online notifications! With the new notification area in the online portal meine.gvl.de, we now offer you a more comfortable user guidance and a simplified notification platform. We would be happy to guide you through the online portal in order to support you with your searches for productions and online notification of your contribution(s). After all, this helps us to avoid charging you a processing fee.