As an emergency measure, the GVL pays 250 Euros to its freelance rightsholders for the cancellation of concerts and productions, so that they at least have a financial margin for the most necessary things. In addition, the GVL Committees are currently discussing further measures. The aim is to provide the GVL's rightsholders with a financial buffer in the coming months so that they can cope better with everyday life.

Dear GVL members,

Events regarding the coronavirus have been developing extremely fast over the past few days. We know that many of you also find themselves in an exceptional situation. In addition to health concerns, economic aspects also play a major role, especially among our rightsholders.

Please note: For the years 2013 and 2014, this constitutes another subsequent distribution. The final, or closing distribution for these years shall take place, as announced, in 2020.

In the case of the revenues of the first and subsequent distributions the amounts in question are always sub-totals. The final remuneration for the relevant distribution year will always be calculated in the course of the closing distribution once the registration phase has lapsed. Against this background, it is possible that there will be offsets in the subsequent distributions.

After having checked with our board and committees, we decided to postpone the back payment of the ZPÜ monies for 2010 as well as the back payment relating to the remuneration for newly released sound recordings without relevant broadcast usage (nrsTT) for 2010-2012 to the beginning of next year.

We hope for your understanding.

Our members can use the new function “open cases” now! On top of that, due to modernised procedures, contribution notifications can be handled more quickly and efficiently in a partly automated verification process.

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We are planning the following distributions by the end of 2019:

Dear GVL members,

We are pleased to be able to inform you that you can now find nearly all feature films and series which were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 on the TV channels that we analyse for the first time on www.meine.gvl.de.

An exception are broadcasts on the channels Disney Channel, Sat.1 Gold, ZDFinfo and - for 2017 - RTLplus. These are yet to be made available to you with the pending transmissions from broadcast year 2018 and inform you about them separately.

With kind regards

Your GVL

• January/February 2019: ZPÜ back payments (for mobile phones and PCs) for the distribution years up to 2009
• from mid-February 2019 onwards - announced for January 2019: Initial distribution 2017 (repeat repertoire for film and TV productions / AV, video clip productions), subsequent distributions 2013-2016 (all distribution budgets, radio own productions only 2013-2015)
• Furthermore, GVL has begun with the initial distribution for sound recording productions for 2017 (repeat repertoire).

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This means: Only such contribution registrations will be paid for which GVL already holds verified contribution registrations. These are mainly such registrations which have been used throughout 2010 to 2016. Registrations for used, new repertoire from 2017 are already possible for the sound recordings category. For any additional categories such as TV productions (AV) or radio productions, registrations can unfortunately only be submitted at a later stage. We are going to inform you accordingly at the appropriate time.

Overview of the pending distributions and new dates for artists: