Apart from international gigs the festival also offers a number of events on exciting contents for international trade visitors. From 21 to 24 September, in the course of 130 different sessions, talks, networking events and interviews about twelve topic groups, 350 speakers and presenters provide insights into the current challenges and issues with respect to live entertainment, recorded music, media and journalism, among others. 

Apart from international gigs the festival also offers a number of events on exciting contents for international trade visitors. From 21 to 24 September, in the course of 130 different sessions, talks, networking events and interviews about twelve topic groups, 350 speakers and presenters provide insights into the current challenges and issues with respect to live entertainment, recorded music, media and journalism, among others. 

Further information and their individual detailed reports are available to rights holders at label.gvl.de.

Good news! The individual results of the distributions to event organisers, scheduled for August, were already paid out by GVL today: This includes the 2021 initial distribution and the regular distributions for the usage years 2019 and 2020. Detailed reports and payout notifications are now available on the portal meine.gvl.

The final distributions for the years 2017 and 2018 are still scheduled for the fourth quarter 2022 as per our current schedule.

This information is relevant for you if you participated in sound recordings with a buy-out contract in the years 1963 to 1967. 

Music knows no borders. Performers and producers are also entitled to receive remuneration from secondary exploitation outside of Germany. For this, rights holders need to mandate GVL with the management of their rights abroad.  

This way, GVL can submit claims for the exploitation of productions from its sister organisations from all over the world and pay out the remuneration to its rights holders. Check out our infographic to see how this works.

The entire creative sector was, once more, subject to highs and lows in 2021 - what felt like a nearly normal summer was followed by a second winter in COVID-19 lockdown. We are grateful that we were able to be at the side of our rights holders as a strong partner in these challenging times. Despite a continued impact by the pandemic, GVL managed to achieve a 15 percent increase of its overall income in 2021, thus reaching EUR 248.6m. At the same time, we paid out EUR 337m to our rights holders.

A total of approximately 3 million euros will be paid out in this distribution round. This time, remuneration was collected from Sweden, Italy, Great Britain, Poland, Belgium and Switzerland, among others.

Prerequisites for receiving foreign remuneration are the reportings of participations and the registrations of repertoire in our online portals as well as the transfer of international rights management.

You can find out exactly how we collect funds from abroad in the infographic: