The GVL will once again be represented at c/o pop in Cologne this year and cordially invites musicians to attend the GVL events on 24 and 25 April 2025 at Herbrand's Ehrenfeld.

24 April 2025

10:00–12:00: Chat with Initiative Musik & GVL

Start the morning with us and Initiative Musik on the first day of the convention. Over a relaxed breakfast, you will have the opportunity to find out more about GVL and make new contacts.

This week, GVL is kicking off the central event in its calendar for this year: From 2 to 6 June 2025, GVL rights holders will vote on who will represent them on the collecting society's committees. Afterwards, GVL will invite performers and producers to the Festsaal Kreuzberg on 11 June.

Invitations to rights holders will be sent by post and email on 9 and 10 April 2025.

All information about BV2025 is available on the event information page.

In this distribution run, GVL is distributing a total of €13.6 million in additional payments to performers and their legal successors for the years 2021 to 2023.

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.

Is your music going to be played on the radio (soon)? Then it's time to join GVL as an artist or label. That's because we make sure you get paid for it! In our session, you can learn more about GVL, the principle of collective rights management and exactly what GVL takes care of on your behalf. We will also explain how you can best register your productions with GVL and what else you should know.

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.

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.

Among other things, the year-end accounts and the 2023 transparency report were received and adopted at the meeting. In addition, the Associates' and Delegates' Assembly supplemented the list of channels to be evaluated in the 2023 distribution plans.

Detlev Tiemann, Chairman of the Associates' and Delegates' Assembly, explains:

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.

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