The new online form guides the user through the registration process - step by step: Once the user has completed entering and checking the necessary data for contractual partners, the electronically generated pdf document, including the allocated personal contract number, can be printed off in duplicate and be posted to GVL. The contract number will help to speed up processing of individual issues in future. As soon as GVL receives the posted documents, the artist receives an e-mail confirming the progress of the process regarding the conclusion of the agreement.

As of now, GVL shines a light into the complex subject of a collective management organisation by means of a new, animated video. “When we created the explainer video, we took those questions on board that interested parties and members kept asking us: For example, how GVL differs from other collective management organisations, say Guido Evers and Tilo Gerlach, the Managing Directors of GVL.

This represents a slight decrease of 0.9% compared to 2014. The decline results mainly from the effect of back payments in the previous year: In 2014, the conclusion of a general agreement on the private copying levies on PCs concluded with the majority of the hardware industry led to a back payment in the two-digit millions range (including back payments for previous years). If GVL was to eliminate this one-off effect, it can actually report an increase of its income in 2015.

Dr. Nils Bortloff, Vice President Legal & Business Affairs at Universal Music, has been an active Board member since 2004; Jörg Glauner, General Counsel Warner Music Central Europe, joined one year after that. The COO & CFO at Warner Music Central Europe, Andreas Klöpfel, has been involved since 2013, while lawyer Ekkehard Kuhn can look back on a Board membership counting nearly nine years.

The total amount of EUR 60.9m arising from financial year 2014 is available to artists; Starting in December 2015, a part of that amount is being paid out to our members. Other payments include the subsequent distributions for distribution years 2010-2013 (distribution 2010-2013). These equal a total amount of EUR 27.6m. This has led to increases in remuneration amounts for the years 2010-2012 as well as a slight reduction of the remuneration amount for 2013, when compared to the distribution in December 2014.