In addition to the already long-existing contract with the Irish RAAP for our performing musicians, GVL has expanded its rights portfolio in Ireland and enters into an agreement with PPI.

For 25 years, Olaf Zimmermann has been the Managing Director of the German Cultural Council. We asked the publisher, former art dealer and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit what he expected from cultural politics after 100 days of the new government.

We are shocked and very much concerned about Russia's attack on Ukraine. We are shocked that a war is raging again in the middle of Europe. We are concerned about our fellow humans in Ukraine - among them many creative people and their families.

Our hearts and thoughts are with the incredibly brave people who are defending our democratic values and our freedom there at the risk of their lives.

+++ Update 14 March 2022 +++

Dear beneficiaries, 

We would hereby like to remind you to submit your reports for the 2017 and 2018 usage years by Feb. 28, 2022, so that we can consider them for the final distribution. 

This reporting deadline does not apply to the so-called "open budgets" (e.g. individual contributions in shows, commercials, documentary formats).  

In the past year, it was difficult for many creatives to earn money in their field of work due to the pandemic. The GVL scholarship in the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR amounting to EUR 5,000 served to support performers to weather this period of hardship. It is set up to be paid in two instalments across a period of four months. Up to the end of last year, about 5,500 performers received their first instalment of EUR 4,500. Now, the second instalment of EUR 500 is due to be paid out.

As announced previously, we have carried out the payments of individual amounts of the supplementary distribution for the years 2010 - 2014.  This supplementary distribution comprises monies that have been retroactively paid to GVL from the Zentralstelle für private Überspielungsrechte [Central Collection and Distribution Organisation for Private Copying Levies in Germany (ZPÜ)] and monies from dissolved reserves for these years. The corresponding payout notifications are made available on the portal meine.gvl.

Actors who have mandated GVL for the corresponding territories, will receive their prospective remuneration for the use of their rights in France and Argentina via GVL (with immediate effect). Both agreements apply retroactively from 2017.

Sandra Klammer, Head of International Affairs, on the conclusion of the agreements: