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.
As announced in the 2025 distribution plans, GVL has completed the above distributions today.
This time, we are distributing a total of €2.8 million to our eligible performers, mainly from Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary and Spain. A third of the funds distributed come from our German-speaking neighboring countries alone. For the first time, our eligible musicians will also benefit from remuneration from Lithuania, thanks to the bilateral agreement with AGATA signed in 2024.
In June 2025, GVL invites its rights holders to two important dates: the virtual group assemblies to elect delegates and a live event in Berlin.
Elections are held in GVL's 15 rights holder groups. An overview of all groups can be found on this page.
