Recently, international revenues were already distributed to their entitled recording producers. Now, as planned, the remuneration for performing artists will follow these days. "We are pleased to announce that in parallel with the initial and subsequent distributions, we are successfully forwarding international remuneration and are able to pay out approximately €1.7 million to our rightsholders in this distribution round," reports Burkhard Sehm, head of Legal & Business Affairs.

Music knows no borders. Performers and producers are also entitled to receive remuneration from secondary exploitation outside of Germany. For this, rights holders need to mandate GVL with the management of their rights abroad.  

This way, GVL can submit claims for the exploitation of productions from its sister organisations from all over the world and pay out the remuneration to its rights holders. Check out our infographic to see how this works.

Die GVL startet heute mit der planmäßigen Weiterleitung von Vergütungen aus dem Ausland an ihre berechtigten Hersteller*innen.

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.

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.

In the course of the Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates, the distribution plans were amended for several distribution years and adopted as such. You can access the updated documents and forms under documents and forms. 
We have summarised for you what has been amended in the following:

As announced, the GVL forwards royalties from abroad to its rights holders this quarter.

In this distribution round, royalties will be paid out from France, the Netherlands, Austria and Great Britain, among others. In total, the GVL will pay more than 4 million Euros to its artists and producers. The basis for this payout is the repertoire and participation reports on the GVL's online portals.

The recently concluded representation agreement for audiovisual productions with the Swiss SWISSPERFORM also leads to distributions to actors and dubbing actors for the first time.

EUR 5.56m are available for this payout run. The money originates, among others, from Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria. Contribution notifications submitted to meine.gvl are the basis for this payout. 

GVL has also been able to establish a continuous distribution rhythm in terms of passing on international revenues. 

SCAPR is the international umbrella organisation of the collective management organisations for performing artists. It was founded in 1986 and is a non-profit-organisation with headquarters in Brussels. It acts as an international platform for the development of the operative collaboration between the collective management organisations for performing artists. It represents 58 societies from 42 countries. 

In order to forward collections by CMOs abroad, GVL needs to process the payment information it receives from its sister organisations and, in some cases, allocate lump-sum payments individually to its rights holders.  Due to the diversity of the data, this sometimes takes more time. In addition, the receipt of the remuneration depends on the respective distributions of the sister organisations and is bundled across several years.