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.

From 20 outstanding albums, the jury of the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Awards will select their 10 favourites in a first step. The eleven-member jury will meet for the first time next week. Two weeks later, the jury will nominate the winner, which will also be influenced by the results of a three-day online vote by music fans worldwide.

With the closing distribution, GVL is concluding the distribution for the usage years 2013 and 2014. All funds, including reserves that are available to us for these years, will be distributed. The budget for the closing distribution increased again in July this year thanks to additional payments for private copying (ZPÜ). These funds will now be distributed to all rights holders who have submitted their contributions in productions with usages in 2013 and 2014. 

In order to forward collections by CMOs abroad, GVL needs to process the payment information it receives from its sister organisations and, in some cases, allocate lump-sum payments individually to its rights holders.  Due to the diversity of the data, this sometimes takes more time. In addition, the receipt of the remuneration depends on the respective distributions of the sister organisations and is bundled across several years.

Please note: If you have already received advance payments for regular distributions in the past, we must process your distributions manually. Therefore, it may take about two weeks before your payout is processed.

GVL is doing everything possible to provide the best possible support in this exceptional situation. In order to be able to provide visible help in the short and medium term, we established the € 250 emergency aid programme for freelance corona victims as quickly as possible in mid-March, which has since been taken up by well over 7,000 freelancers.

These payments on account, to be transferred at the end of May, are an exceptional kind of advance for performers on future distributions. The amount is not yet fixed, it depends on the number of participants and the individual expected claims from the distributions of the next years.

The advance payment made by GVL will be offset against the future remuneration to which they are entitled. Only when the advance payment has been fully covered by future remuneration for the years will new payouts be made again.

In addition to the "emergency relief", for which GVL will provide up to €4 million as part of its grants, other possibilities for short-term support, such as advance payments on future distributions, are also being firmed up. Rightsholders should be able to benefit from these measures as soon as possible.