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We put three questions in relation to the exceptional year 2020 and the plans for the coming year to Bernhard F. Störkmann, Shareholder representative for the BFFS and Dr Till Völger, GVL Delegate for dubbing actors and member of the BFFS Board.

The Minister of State for Culture and Media, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of Economics, has confirmed: current remuneration from collective management organisations or music licensing organisations (CMOs/MLCs) has no influence on the special economic support measures granted by the Federal Government in November and December.

On 25/11/2020, GVL will begin with the payouts of the performer remuneration as part of its initial distribution 2019 and the subsequent distributions 2015 to 2018. In total, €57.7m will be additionally distributed to rights holders. See below for more details on this regular distribution.

On 13 November 2020, the GVL Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates (ASD) got together at its third meeting of the year.

Here you will find all the latest information about contributions to the open budgets and their distribution.

Since the new distribution regulations on the basis of legal requirements came into force in 2016, producers of sound recordings and labels who are rights holders benefit from an increased transparency and track-based distribution today.

Even in times of corona, GVL is supporting the Opus Klassik awards this year.

In a position paper, the Federal Association of Actors (BFFS) addressed politicians at the beginning of October. In it, the GVL shareholder requests that an obligation for broadcasters and producers to provide information to collective management organisations for films should be anchored by statute.

In the course of the General Assembly of SCAPR on 7 October 2020, Dr. Tilo Gerlach, Managing Director of GVL, was re-elected into the SCAPR Board. Earlier this year, in May, he had also been confirmed as President of AEPO-ARTIS.