GVL

We are one of the biggest collective management organisations for neighbouring rights in Europe. Please read on to find out more about our activity as representatives of our rights holders.

Die GVL

Wir sind eine der größten Verwertungsgesellschaften für Leistungsschutzrechte in Europa. Informieren Sie sich über unsere Tätigkeit als Treuhänder für unsere Berechtigten.

Rechteinhaber

Mehr als 160.000 Rechteinhaber vertrauen uns bereits in der Wahrnehmung ihrer Leistungsschutzrechte. Erfahren Sie hier, wie auch Sie von der GVL profitieren.

Rechtenutzer

Die GVL lizenziert die Verwertung von leistungsschutzrechtlich geschützten Produktionen. Nutzen Sie die Vielfalt und Qualität der Leistungen unserer Berechtigten für sich.

Rights holders

More than 160,000 members have already entrusted us with their neighbouring rights. Please read on for further information.

Rights users

GVL licenses the usage of productions protected by neighbouring rights. Why not make use of the varied, high quality performances of our rights holders?

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Our members

We are proud of you, our members. Every day you accomplish something that's new, artistic and creative – and we proudly support you. Who else can claim that they collaborate with 160,000 performers and over 12,000 producers of sound recordings all over the world?

If you are a performer, a label, an event organiser and/or a music video clip producer, and have acquired neighbouring rights in the course of your artistic activities as set out in Art. 73 German Copyright Act, you are eligible for rights administration. It doesn't matter what nationality you are – art knows no boundaries.

Membership numbers

We are honoured that we can currently count about 160.000 performers, producers, organisers and music video clip producers among our members.

Membership diversity

We're passionate about such a wide range of artistic groups: We represent conductors, instrumentalists and musicians (soloists, band musicians, orchestra performers and studio musicians), artistic producers, narrators and raconteurs, music video clip directors and producers, solo singers, choir singers, actors, stunts and stunt performers, dubbing actors and dubbing artists, dancers, producers of sound recordings and labels, event organisers as well as literary directors and dubbing directors. 

That's what makes our mission so exciting. Day in, day out.