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The EU Parliament has voted in favour of the EU Copyright Law reform on 26 March 2019 and thus paved the way for a modern copyright where both users and creators benefit from fair regulations. GVL, the German Neighbouring Rights Society, welcomes this decision.

GVL is going to launch further pay-outs in the coming weeks. We envisage the following timelines for 2019:

Florian Richter has left the Associates’ and Delegates’ Assembly as a delegate.

With immediate effect, GVL pays remuneration to its right holders for repeat repertoire for 2017 in the course of its initial distribution for 2017.

As announced, GVL is currently launching the payout process of the producer distribution for the usage years 2016 (4th distribution run) and 2017 (initial distribution).

GVL regrets having to announce that the distribution which had originally been scheduled for September must be postponed once more. The period during which the payouts will take place is now expected to be in December 2018. For technical reasons, the launch may well be protracted into next year.

The public broadcasting companies have decided to use a service provider to verify the music use in their programmes by way of fingerprinting and therefore to continue to improve the quality of their broadcast usage reports from 2019 on. At GVL, we welcome this technological enhancement in terms of our members.
What does this mean for you as a producer of sound recordings?

Due to technical reasons, GVL regrets having to postpone the distributions scheduled for September to October/November. We expect to start carrying out the pay-outs for artists at the end of October / beginning of November. The pay-out for producers is scheduled to take place in November.

We decided that we would like to make the option to provide notifications for the distribution year 2013 available once more and to extend the registration deadline for the final distribution 2013 to 10 November 2018.