At the meeting, among other things, the year-end accounts and the transparency report 2022 were adopted and decided upon. Details can be found in the current press release (14 June 2023).
Furthermore, the Associates' and Delegates' Assembly approved further grants within the framework of the Ukraine aid against the background of the ongoing war.
In addition to the revenues from broadcasting and private copying, remunerations from public performance of artistic recordings are a main pillar of GVL licensing. In the interests of its rights holders, the GVL is seeking an appropriate increase in tariffs in this area.
In this distribution round, a total of approximately 2.6 million Euros from all over the world will be distributed to our rightsholders this time.
This time, our recording producers receive remunerations from Great Britain, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and the USA, among others. Moreover, we forward money to our performing artists from Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Austria and others. For the first time, our musicians also receive usage-based payments from Brazil.
Overall, Guido Evers and Dr Tilo Gerlach, Managing Directors of GVL, give a positive review for 2022 and the COVID-19 times: “We managed to yield satisfactory results in the third pandemic year running. Furthermore, we navigated GVL through these changing times with economic success and achieved historic maximum levels for our payouts. At the same time, we used this special phase to significantly develop from a technical and organisational perspective.”
As early as twelve years ago, GVL began to move its business with performers into the digital realm. This transformative process has been applied to all of GVL and impacts on our daily business.
This distribution relates to sound recording productions in the years 1963-1967 whose term of protection was extended from 50 to 70 years. In this distribution, contributions from the years 1965 to 1967 are remunerated the first time.
As provided by law, GVL passes on 20% of the sales income from 2016 to 2018 to the contributing musicians who do not receive any licence payments.
"We are especially happy for our actors and actresses because they will receive remuneration from France for the first time. After many years of negotiations and one year after signing the contract, we initially received about 1.5 million euros from our French sister society ADAMI, which we are now delighted to pass on," summarises Burkhard Sehm, Head of Legal and Business Affairs.
Jenny: GVL takes an important step in the direction of a paperless collective management organisation by opting for the new online rights administration agreement. Rights holders now have no longer paper in their hands, the entire process has been digitised entirely with the new rights administration agreement.
A total of 13 national and four international distribution runs, GVL paid remuneration to more than 175,000 performers and producers last year. Despite another challenging year for the sector, an overall amount of EUR 240.9m were allocated. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, GVL has thus distributed approx. EUR 870m to its rights holders (2020: EUR 292m, 2021: EUR 337m).
More on the 2022 distribution year in our comprehensive press release here.
Radio/TV extra format were formerly know as "Open Budgets", e.g. commercials, jingles or documentary productions.
Performers can find the form via the menu item "Radio/TV extra formats" directly in my.gvl in the menu on the left. This form should be used exclusively for participation reports on productions from the "Radio/TV Extra Formats" category that were broadcast on radio or TV in 2019 but cannot be found in the conventional product search.
Reports for usages in 2019 can be submitted to 06/30/2023. Distribution is planned for the 2nd half of 2023.
