Every four years, during the GVL Assembly of Rights Holders, the GVL rights holders elect 22 representatives for the Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates, one of the most important governing bodies of GVL. Delegates are elected for the 15 group assemblies. All rights holders can participate in the Assembly of Rights Holders and the election of representatives.  

The invites for the virtual Assembly of Rights Holders 2021 will be dispatched to our rights holders in April.

The dates are continuously updated. We inform you on www.gvl.de of all news regarding the GVL distributions.

Performer distributions

1st semester 2021:

• Open budgets 2010-2014
• Supplementary distributions including ZPÜ, 2010-2014

2nd semester 2021:

“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.

In addition to the unallocated revenues, GVL also distributes a private copying levy (ZPÜ) back payment for 2016, which we received earlier this year.

Check label.gvl for more information.

For further questions please contact us at label@gvl.de or +49 30 48483-650. Please note: our offices are closed from December 21, 2020 to January 3, 2021. We will be back at your service on January 4, 20202.

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.

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

Furthermore, GVL is going to run a final distribution for producers on the basis of the new Collecting Societies Act for the first time this year in December.

Enough good reasons in order to register as a rights holder with us, to keep your registered repertoire up to date and to look after conflict resolution and claims of “open” usages regularly.

What else is on the agenda for you?

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.

Due to additional subsequent notifications and further allocation of broadcast reports, also by way of the claims for open usages which many producers have submitted, we were able to continue to increase the distribution quotas of the years 2016 to 2018 and for the years 2016 and 2017 to more than 90%.

Furthermore, we achieved an overall distribution quota of 81 percent for usage year 2019, not least due to a significant share of better-quality broadcast data based on fingerprinting.