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.

A total of approximately 3 million euros will be paid out in this distribution round. This time, remuneration was collected from Sweden, Italy, Great Britain, Poland, Belgium and Switzerland, 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.

You can find out exactly how we collect funds from abroad in the infographic:

This distribution relates to sound recording productions in the years 1963/64 whose term of protection was extended from 50 to 70 years. As provided by law, GVL passes on 20% of the sales income from 2014 and 2015 to the contributing musicians who do not receive any licence payments.

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These revenues relate to supplementary payments from the private copying section (ZPÜ monies) which GVL only received during the current financial year. The payouts will be made to rights holders who already received remuneration from the private copying section for 2008 and 2009.

The revenues from the distribution system which was income-based back then will be accumulated in proportion to the income received in arrears. In this supplementary distribution, about EUR 10m can be paid out to approx. 30,000 directly entitled rights holders.

Overall, GVL distributes 35.8m euros to performers and their legal successors in the course of a subsequent distribution

The distribution will be concluded with the final distribution where additional monies will be paid out which had not been claimed by the performers within the given deadlines. Since we now have a better understanding regarding the scope of the claims for which we must put money into reserves, we were able to increase the payout amounts significantly. 

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.

Dear beneficiaries, 

We would hereby like to remind you to submit your reports for the 2017 and 2018 usage years by Feb. 28, 2022, so that we can consider them for the final distribution. 

This reporting deadline does not apply to the so-called "open budgets" (e.g. individual contributions in shows, commercials, documentary formats).  

In the past year, it was difficult for many creatives to earn money in their field of work due to the pandemic. The GVL scholarship in the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR amounting to EUR 5,000 served to support performers to weather this period of hardship. It is set up to be paid in two instalments across a period of four months. Up to the end of last year, about 5,500 performers received their first instalment of EUR 4,500. Now, the second instalment of EUR 500 is due to be paid out.

Oliver Ewy thus takes over the seat as a delegate for the actors. Due to her professional commitments, Claudia Michelsen had to give up her seat in December: “Unfortunately, my professional life does not let me dedicate the time required to fulfil my duties in the GVL committees”, she explains. “As a delegate, I could find out about the complexity behind supposedly simple topics. At the same time, I met a very committed GVL team.

With the final distribution, GVL is closing the distribution for the usage years 2015 and 2016. All funds, including reserves that are available to us for these years, will be distributed. Exempt thereof are revenues for contributions to productions which belong to the so-called open budgets such as jingles and advertising. These will take place shortly.