A total of approximately 4 million euros will be paid out in this distribution round. Royalties will be forwarded from Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA, Great Britain and Finnland, 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.

GVL launched the payouts for the subsequent distributions sound recordings 2018 to 2020 to the producers entitled to receive remuneration today. With immediate effect, the individual distribution results and the relevant payout notifications/statements in case of any additional remuneration being paid are available via our producer portal label.gvl.

GVL is going to bring forward regular distributions 2019 and 2020 and the initial distributions 2021 for event organisers to August 2022. The distributions for event organisers had originally been scheduled for the fourth quarter this year. 

Please note that the notification deadline for the contribution notifications continues to be 30 June 2022. The final distributions 2017 and 2018 shall take place in the fourth quarter 2022, as scheduled.

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.