News

Members can now find practically a complete inventory of feature films and series which have been broadcast for the first time in 2016 and 2017 on TV channels that are analysed by GVL on www.meine.gvl.de.

Regarding the final distribution 2014, GVL kindly asks all members to submit their contributions with regards to usage year 2014 registrations by the end of June 2019.

Our former GVL Board member, Martin Böttcher, died on 19 April 2019 at the age of 91.

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:

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

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

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.