The distribution dates are continuously being finalised. We regularly inform rights holders about all distribution-relevant news on gvl.de and our social media channels. The following graphic shows GVL's distribution plans for 2025.
With this final distribution, GVL concludes the distribution for the usage year 2020. All funds, including provisions, that are available to us for this year will be distributed.
In total, around €20.2 million will be paid out in the final distribution for 2020. 170,872 performing artists participated in the distribution. These are all rights holders who have reported their contributions to used productions by the deadline.
To be eligible for the final distribution, the productions in which the reported contributions were made must have been broadcast on radio or TV in 2022.
Eligible rights holders can conclude a contract with GVL online. If we receive your registration in full by 17 October 2025, the contract can still be concluded retroactively from 2022. There are no costs involved.
Registrations received after 17 October 2025 cannot be guaranteed to be included in the final distribution for 2022. Deferred remuneration will also expire after the expiry of the registration period.
Today, GVL has instructed the payments of the calculated distribution revenues. Rights holders can find further information and their individual detailed reports at label.gvl.de.
Today, GVL has completed an additional distribution of recently received ZPÜ back payments for the years 2016-2019. The payments of the calculated revenues have been instructed.
The corresponding payment notifications are provided in label.gvl. No detailed reports or broadcaster analyses were prepared for these supplementary distributions - the basis is the broadcasting minutes allocated in the respective final distributions for the years 2016-2019 concerned.
In order to be able to participate in the final distribution for the 2021 usage year, we ask rights holders to submit their contributions to us by 31.12.2024.
This deadline also applies to Radio/TV -extra formats (e.g. individual contributions in non-fictional formats, commercials, documentaries).
Last week, GVL forwarded remuneration from abroad to its entitled recording producers for the second time this year. Now the international royalties for performing artists will be following as planned. A total of around EUR 3.8 million will be distributed this quarter. The payments originated this time from Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the UK, Japan and Sweden, among others.
As announced in the distribution plans, GVL has started to provide the individual distribution results of the Initial distribution 2023 today. At the same time, the subsequent distributions for the 2021 and 2022 usage years have been completed.
The payments of the distribution revenues achieved have been instructed. Detailed reports and payment notifications have been made available to all participating rights holders in the my.gvl portal. According to current planning, the final distribution to event organisers for 2020 will take place in November 2024.
This distribution relates to sound recording productions in the years 1963-1971 whose term of protection was extended from 50 to 70 years. In this distribution, contributions from the years 1968 to 1971 are remunerated the first time.
As provided by law, GVL passes on 20% of the sales income from 2019 to 2022 to the contributing musicians who do not receive any licence payments.
Dear beneficiaries,
we are happy to inform you that you can now also find the productions in the artist portal that were first broadcast in 2023 on the channels evaluated by GVL.
All media types - sound recordings, films and series, broadcast stage productions, radio music productions, radio spoken word productions and video clips - can now be found via the product search, so that you can report your contributions.
