On 10 and 11 April 2024, the collecting societies for neighbouring rights in the DACH region met in Berlin. GVL hosted the event and warmly welcomed colleagues from Swissperform in Zurich and LSG in Vienna.

The agenda of the annual event included a general exchange of experiences as well as the presentation of best practices and current technical and legal issues. Discussions also focussed on opportunities for closer cooperation.

As of today, GVL will complete the payouts for the subsequent distributions sound recordings 2020 to 2022 to its rights holders. The individual distribution results as well as the corresponding payout notifications for additional remuneration are available on the label.gvl portal with immediate effect.

A total of around EUR 3.4 million will be distributed this time, around half of which will come from our two neighbouring countries Austria and Switzerland. Further payments will be forwarded for usages in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, and the USA, among others.

In order to be able to participate in the final distribution for the 2020 usage year, we ask rights holders to submit their contributions to us by 29 February 2024.

This deadline does not apply to Radio/TV -extra formats (e.g. individual contributions in non-fictional formats, commercials, documentaries). 

An overview of all current deadlines can be found here.

The tried-and-tested online seminars for our rights holders and Producers will take place again this year. 

The series on various topics relating to the label.gvl portal will start on 7 February 2024.  

Our dates and topics for the label.gvl Academy 2024 are:

- 07.02. Reporting repertoire
- 03.04. Managing conflicts
- 12.06. Unallocated usages
- 07.08. Documents, master data & mandates

Venues in German.

We are observing with concern the strengthening of right-wing extremist forces in Germany and the inhuman expulsion plans of racist groups. The conference in Potsdam uncovered by the non-profit research centre Correctiv, at which the expulsion of millions of people from Germany was discussed, is a further transgression that is absolutely shocking and must not go unchallenged (to the Correctiv report).

The plans under discussion are directed against the existence of people in our country and represent an attack on the Basic Law.

From now on, GVL rights holders can submit their contribution notifications for “radio/TV extra formats” (formerly “open budgets”) for 2020. These are contributions to productions such as advertisements, jingles or productions with a documentary character. More information can be accessed in our FAQs under “What are radio and TV extra formats? Which budgets belong to them?“.

The Cologne c/o pop has already been around for 20 years now and has just been granted the Pop Culture Award. We spoke with co-founder Ralph Christoph to enquire what currently makes the festival stand out and where the journey will take it next.

GVL: The c/o pop has just been granted the GVL-sponsored Pop Culture Award in the category “Practised Pop Culture”. What does this mean for c/o pop and yourself?