The GVL will once again be represented at c/o pop in Cologne this year and cordially invites musicians to attend the GVL events on 24 and 25 April 2025 at Herbrand's Ehrenfeld.

24 April 2025

10:00–12:00: Chat with Initiative Musik & GVL

Start the morning with us and Initiative Musik on the first day of the convention. Over a relaxed breakfast, you will have the opportunity to find out more about GVL and make new contacts.

This week, GVL is kicking off the central event in its calendar for this year: From 2 to 6 June 2025, GVL rights holders will vote on who will represent them on the collecting society's committees. Afterwards, GVL will invite performers and producers to the Festsaal Kreuzberg on 11 June.

Invitations to rights holders will be sent by post and email on 9 and 10 April 2025.

All information about BV2025 is available on the event information page.

Die Gelder dieser Ausschüttungsrunde stammen aus Großbritannien, Irland, Niederlande, Schweden, Spanien und den USA. Erneut konnten wir dabei Vergütungen der MTV-Sendergruppe für Videoclip-Ausstrahlungen aus Großbritannien berücksichtigen.

The distribution dates are continuously being finalised. We regularly inform rights holders about all distribution-relevant news on gvl.de and our social media channels. The following graphic shows GVL's distribution plans for 2025.

From this year onwards, it will be possible to use the DDEX standard ERN to send a standardised publication notification for digital releases to the German Music Archive (Deutsches Musikarchiv, DMA). As a department of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB), the DMA explains that the automatic delivery currently mainly affects labels and music distributors that are able to use the DDEX standard ERN. In particular, the DMA sees technical challenges for freelance performers and smaller independent labels.

Is your music going to be played on the radio (soon)? Then it's time to join GVL as an artist or label. That's because we make sure you get paid for it! In our session, you can learn more about GVL, the principle of collective rights management and exactly what GVL takes care of on your behalf. We will also explain how you can best register your productions with GVL and what else you should know.

Today, GVL has instructed the payments of the calculated distribution revenues. Rights holders can find further information and their individual detailed reports at label.gvl.de.

Today, GVL has completed an additional distribution of recently received ZPÜ back payments for the years 2016-2019. The payments of the calculated revenues have been instructed.

The corresponding payment notifications are provided in label.gvl. No detailed reports or broadcaster analyses were prepared for these supplementary distributions - the basis is the broadcasting minutes allocated in the respective final distributions for the years 2016-2019 concerned.

Last week, GVL forwarded remuneration from abroad to its entitled recording producers for the second time this year. Now the international royalties for performing artists will be following as planned. A total of around EUR 3.8 million will be distributed this quarter. The payments originated this time from Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the UK, Japan and Sweden, among others.

Among other things, the year-end accounts and the 2023 transparency report were received and adopted at the meeting. In addition, the Associates' and Delegates' Assembly supplemented the list of channels to be evaluated in the 2023 distribution plans.

Detlev Tiemann, Chairman of the Associates' and Delegates' Assembly, explains: