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Aged 93, our former long-term colleague, Ernst Schönfelder, passed away on 25 February in Hamburg. Until 2003, he managed the cultural and social grants unit.

In order to ensure that all contributions can be taken into account for the 2015 and 2016 final distributions, we would like to invite our performers who are rights holders to submit their notifications for said usage years no later than 30/04/2021 via meine.gvl.

From today, all rights holders will be able to access information regarding the Assembly of Rights Holders on 3 and 4 June 2021 via the InfoPortal BV2021 (bv2021.gvl.de)

We asked Gerald Mertens, the Managing Director of the German Orchestra Association (DOV) three questions on the exceptional year 2020 and his plans for 2021.

Überbrückungshilfe [Interim aid] III and Neustarthilfe [restart aid] programmes: Turnover calculation is based on the date of the provision of services.

Last week two virtual discussion rounds have taken place as part of the new “GVL talks” – with a lot of success.

Today, GVL is going to transfer the remuneration in the course of the follow-up distributions for music video clipes for the usage years 2016 and 2017 to the producers of sound recordings.

GVL will hold its next Assembly of Rights Holders on 3 and 4 June 2021 - this will be an online only event.

The Deutsche Musikrat [German Music Council] set up a survey regarding the Corona-induced damage to music life which is running until 28 February.