This reporting deadline does not apply to the so-called "open budgets" (e.g. individual contributions in shows, commercials, documentary formats) and the extended protection period for sound recordings according to §79a. We will inform you separately about the corresponding reporting options and deadlines in due time. 

Event organisers who have qualified for payments will find their individual remuneration results of the final distribution 2019 in the portal meine.gvl.

If you have any questions, please contact us at veranstalter@gvl.de or +49 30 48483-855. 

Event organisers who have qualified for payments will find their individual remuneration results of the final distributions in the portal meine.gvl.

If you have any questions, please contact us at veranstalter@gvl.de or +49 30 48483-855. 

GVL is closing the distribution for the usage years 2017 and 2018 with this final distribution. All funds, including available reserves for these years, will be distributed. Remuneration from the so-called “open budgets” such as jingles or advertising are included in this distribution run for the first time.

In order for you to participate in the final distribution the productions to which you have contributed, must have been broadcast on the radio or on TV in 2019.

Prof. Christian Höppner is Secretary of the German Music Council and President of the German Cultural Council.  The cello player and conductor is a GVL rightsholder and has been supporting the needs of musicians and creatives in various functions for many years. 

Recently, international revenues were already distributed to their entitled recording producers. Now, as planned, the remuneration for performing artists will follow these days. "We are pleased to announce that in parallel with the initial and subsequent distributions, we are successfully forwarding international remuneration and are able to pay out approximately €1.7 million to our rightsholders in this distribution round," reports Burkhard Sehm, head of Legal & Business Affairs.

From 21 to 24 September, the Reeperbahn Festival opened its gates in Hamburg again. Apart from a plethora of live acts firing up the audience, music business players met to discuss their most burning topics as part of a comprehensive conference programme.