Florian Richter has left the Associates’ and Delegates’ Assembly as a delegate, as well as the Distribution Committee with effect from 21 November 2018. We would like to thank Florian Richter for his support at this point .
Richter’s successor for the music directors’ and artistic producers sector is, with immediate effect, Angelo D’Angelico. He had been elected at the last Rights’ Holders’ Assembly as a stand-in delegate. Moreover, D’Angelico will be a member of the Distribution Committee in future.

This means: Only such contribution registrations will be paid for which GVL already holds verified contribution registrations. These are mainly such registrations which have been used throughout 2010 to 2016. Registrations for used, new repertoire from 2017 are already possible for the sound recordings category. For any additional categories such as TV productions (AV) or radio productions, registrations can unfortunately only be submitted at a later stage. We are going to inform you accordingly at the appropriate time.

Since you are a producer participating in the distribution you will find your payout information as usual on www.label.gvl.de. Detailed reports and broadcast analyses for usage year 2016 and 2017 including previously allocated broadcast minutes shall be made available to you in the coming days.

Overview of the pending distributions and new dates for artists:

In order to enable this improvement, the service provider, BMAT, requires your repertoire data.

As far as the data is being made available by MPN/Phononet and you are a customer there, Phononet will require your permission to pass your data on. Detailed information on this matter can be accessed at: https://www.phononet.de/bemusterung-bmat-ueber-das-mpn/. The Phononet MPN Team is also happy to assist you with your queries, you can call them on +49 40 55493722 or e-mail them at musik-promotion@phononet.de.

We currently have not received enough notifications regarding the productions used in 2013. As a collective management organisation, we are obliged to ensure that as many rights owners as possible get paid, and would like to ensure this by extending the deadline. Furthermore, www.artsys.gvl.de was also not available throughout.

In order to be able to duly and diligently process your additional contribution registrations we will postpone the final distribution 2013 to the 2nd/3rd quarter 2019.

The modification of the distribution sequence is necessary in order to ensure a flawless and frictionless process of multiple and simultaneous distribution runs.

Overview of the pending distributions and new dates

Performers

The Directive stipulates a stronger responsibility for internet platforms and clear regulations in terms of the Urhebervertragsrecht [copyright contract law]. One particular objective is to close the so-called “Value Gap” between platforms and creatives. The intention is to force platforms such as YouTube to filter new contents before their publication and check whether they are due any due licensing remuneration. Currently, contents are only deleted retrospectively if copyright infringements have been actively indicated.

Similarly for broadcasters and webcasters: from now the easiest way for us to find you on our system will be via the new GVL-ID, and no longer via the previous customer number.

The GVL-ID acts as the unique identifier for all our members. Heirs or power of attorneys will also receive their own GVL-ID. If you are represented with us in multiple categories (e.g. artist and producers, artist and heir) you will have several GVL-IDs.

Producers taking part in the follow-up distribution will, as usual, find detailed reports and broadcast analyses for the usage year 2016 including the previously allocated broadcast minutes as of week 27 on label.gvl.

Should payouts be due after the deduction of previous payments based on this distribution result, you will find the relevant payout information outlined there too.

Further information regarding this distribution run can be found on www.label.gvl.de.