“We are pleased that we could act as a constant factor from a financial perspective for many of our performers and producers in a year which could hardly have been any more unsteady”, as pointed out by Guido Evers and Dr. Tilo Gerlach, Managing Directors of GVL. “We carried out all regular distribution runs as scheduled and were able to allocate advances and corona support payments to our rights holders. We are proud of that.”

In the course of the Hamburg music dialogue in September, parts of the 2020 Music Industry Study have already been presented. The complete study "The Music Industry in Germany" is now available. Click here to see the German Version.

The amendment to the Articles of Association required for the Assembly of Rights Holders to be held virtually had already been cleared in the November meeting.

The Assembly of Rights Holders is held every four years. In the 15 group assemblies, the rights holders elect up to 22 delegates and 22 alternate delegates. Together with the four shareholder representatives, they make up the 26-member Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates.

What is your conclusion for the creative sector in 2020?

The current payouts by CMOs/MLCs relating to past performance periods are not taken into account when calculating turnover under the support programmes. 

Dear rights holders,

Tomorrow, GVL will begin with the payouts of the remuneration in the course of its initial distribution 2019 (except music video clips) and the subsequent distributions 2015 to 2018. 

Please note:

Dear GVL members,

At the beginning of September we informed you that you can now report your contributions to productions of the open GVL sub-budgets (e.g. commercials, jingles, documentary formats). For this purpose we have set up an online form on our homepage. 

We would kindly like to remind you to notify us by 31.12.2020 of your contributions to the relevant products in case they were broadcast from 2010 to 2014, so that we can remunerate them.

The open GVL sub-budgets include:

SCAPR is the international umbrella organisation of the collective management organisations for performing artists. It was founded in 1986 and is a non-profit-organisation with headquarters in Brussels. It acts as an international platform for the development of the operative collaboration between the collective management organisations for performing artists. It represents 58 societies from 42 countries. 

It should be ensured that the producers provide the data with unique identifiers and that the broadcasters should then pass them on to GVL accordingly. Such direct access for GVL to the required contribution and production details would make a significant contribution to improve the quality of the data received by GVL, among others, and to ensure a valid data collection of the collective management organisations in the long term.

Dr. Tilo Gerlach and Guido Evers, Managing Directors of GVL: "We are pleased to welcome Oliver Ewy to our core committee, the GuDV [Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates]. We have already significantly expanded the dialogue with the actors and actresses in the past months.