Factors such as gender-specific differences in employment conditions, salary distribution and career opportunities within companies in the music industry will be investigated. In addition, insights will be gained into the influences of gender diversity on consumer purchasing decisions and user behaviour.

The significance of gender equality in the usage of music services from a consumer's point of view will also be examined for the first time. The results will be presented at Reeperbahn Festival in September 2021.

The invitations contain personal registration details for the participation to the BV2021. Furthermore, there will be general information regarding the event and the agenda, explanations regarding the online registration and the participation in the digital voting process as well as tips regarding candidatures.

Today, GVL is paying the remuneration in the subsequent distribution runs relating to usage years 2017 to 2019 to producers of sound recordings. Producers can access their individual distribution results with immediate effect in the portal label.gvl.

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Ernst Schönfelder had close connections with the founding fathers of GVL, Hermann Voss and Rudolf Irmisch, and had been accompanying GVL since its early days. In his early 20ies, he was a witness of the founding conversations between Voss and Irmisch during their walks along the Alster and while visiting various Hamburg cafes. 

This notification deadline also applies for the so-called “open sub-budgets” for the years 2015 and 2016.  For the radio own productions (spoken word) the deadline is scheduled to be 31/05/2021.

Among other things, you can obtain information on how the online registration, the digital participation and the election in the group assemblies will work. You will also find out how you can submit your candidature and which candidates are up for election in which group assemblies. We continually update the InfoPortal BV2021 and add new details to it.

The State Ministry for Culture and the Media (BKM) confirmed to GVL as early as last year in consultation with the Federal Ministry of Economics that: Remuneration by collective management organisations/music licensing companies which are usually collected for previous years and are paid out now, have no impact on the extraordinary economic support measures granted by the Federal Government. 

In the two GVL talks held in February, the GVL staff welcomed parties interested in discussing their issues among actors (17 February) and producers (18 February). In total, more than 100 rights holders took part in the discussion rounds.