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.

To be eligible for the final distribution, the productions in which you have participated must have been broadcast on radio or TV in 2017 to 2018.

In 2013, the German Copyright Act extended the protection for sound recordings produced from 1963 onwards from 50 to 70 years.

Artists who were compensated at that time by a one-time payment (buy-out contract) for their participation in the recording are to receive an economic share of the proceeds from sales or digital uses such as streaming or downloading by the producers of sound carriers during the extended protection period. This remuneration is paid via GVL. 

As announced, the GVL forwards royalties from abroad to its rights holders this quarter.

In this distribution round, royalties will be paid out from France, the Netherlands, Austria and Great Britain, among others. In total, the GVL will pay more than 4 million Euros to its artists and producers. The basis for this payout is the repertoire and participation reports on the GVL's online portals.

The recently concluded representation agreement for audiovisual productions with the Swiss SWISSPERFORM also leads to distributions to actors and dubbing actors for the first time.

As usual, you can find your payment notifications (AZM) in your my.gvl account: Log in at mygvl.de with your access data. Click on "My Account" in the menu under "Service", then on "Payouts". Under "Remuneration" your detailed report will be filed accordingly in the next two weeks. In principle, heirs will receive their payout notification by post.

The pop music award is thus adding another important for the music scene in Germany to the awards APPLAUS and the German Jazz Award which have already been called into life by Initiative Music.  Initiative Music provides a harbour for the academy of the new award which has been initiated by the Federal Minister for Culture and Media, Monika Grütters.

Update 27.09.21: The application portal has been closed early because the funds have already been exhausted due to the number of applications.

Dr.