The GVL will once again be represented at c/o pop in Cologne this year and cordially invites musicians to attend the GVL events on 24 and 25 April 2025 at Herbrand's Ehrenfeld.

24 April 2025

10:00–12:00: Chat with Initiative Musik & GVL

Start the morning with us and Initiative Musik on the first day of the convention. Over a relaxed breakfast, you will have the opportunity to find out more about GVL and make new contacts.

This week, GVL is kicking off the central event in its calendar for this year: From 2 to 6 June 2025, GVL rights holders will vote on who will represent them on the collecting society's committees. Afterwards, GVL will invite performers and producers to the Festsaal Kreuzberg on 11 June.

Invitations to rights holders will be sent by post and email on 9 and 10 April 2025.

All information about BV2025 is available on the event information page.

Efficient processes and consistent data are key to ensuring that GVL distributions are made on time and correctly. This requires the analysis and processing of enormous amounts of data and the precise allocation of several million usage and participation reports.

Auch in diesem Jahr war die GVL wieder Teil der c/o pop Convention in Köln – und bot mit zwei eigenen Programmpunkten eine Bühne für Information und Dialog mit Musiker*innen, Labels und Vertreter*innen der Kulturbranche. 

8 May this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. For this reason, the state of Berlin has declared this year's Liberation Day a special public holiday. The GVL will therefore be closed all day on Thursday, 8 May 2025.

We will be available again as usual from Friday, 9 May.

Photo: Corinna Haselmayer/Shutterstock

All candidates for voter groups 1 to 15 are now listed on the information page for the 2025 Rights Holders' Assembly.

Members of voter groups 1 to 14 (performers, event organisers, producers of video clips) can register to vote until Friday, 16 May at 5 p.m. via the BV2025 election portal.

This week, the classical music community gathered in Berlin for Classical:NEXT. Around 2,000 participants attended the trade fair to exchange ideas, take part in numerous events and enjoy evening concerts. Josephine Baenisch, head of the Classical Music and Orchestras group in the Rights Holders Service, represented GVL at the international event.

2025 is a special year for GVL: more than 180,000 performers and producers are invited to the GVL Rights Holders' Assembly.

Following the election week at the beginning of June, GVL will celebrate a premiere on 11 June with ‘GVL Live’, where creatives, labels, newly elected delegates and representatives of the cultural scene will meet in person for the first time in the Festsaal Kreuzberg. The event offers space for exchange, encounters and new impulses from the industry.

This time, we are distributing a total of 1.8 million euros to our rights holders and producers from a total of twelve countries. For performers, the funds come mainly from the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Producers will receive funds from Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and the USA in this distribution round. Once again, we were able to include remuneration from the MTV broadcasting group for video clip broadcasts.

In this distribution run, GVL is distributing a total of €13.6 million in additional payments to performers and their legal successors for the years 2021 to 2023.