“Musicians without borders” is a global network of creative music projects which intends to enable people to access music, in particular to learn how to play an instrument, irrespective of their backgrounds, and to thus use the power of music for social change.

From 21 to 24 September, the Reeperbahn Festival opened its gates in Hamburg again. Apart from a plethora of live acts firing up the audience, music business players met to discuss their most burning topics as part of a comprehensive conference programme.

Music knows no borders. Performers and producers are also entitled to receive remuneration from secondary exploitation outside of Germany. For this, rights holders need to mandate GVL with the management of their rights abroad.  

This way, GVL can submit claims for the exploitation of productions from its sister organisations from all over the world and pay out the remuneration to its rights holders. Check out our infographic to see how this works.

Overall income of GVL for 2021 stands at EUR 248.6m and GVL thus managed to raise it by 15.5 percent compared to the previous year (2020: EUR 216.1m). GVL recorded growth in all three core sectors of GVL, i.e. broadcast, reproduction and public performance. Remuneration paid to GVL by collective management organisations or music licensing companies abroad also rose noticeably.  

In addition to the already long-existing contract with the Irish RAAP for our performing musicians, GVL has expanded its rights portfolio in Ireland and enters into an agreement with PPI.

In the past year, it was difficult for many creatives to earn money in their field of work due to the pandemic. The GVL scholarship in the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR amounting to EUR 5,000 served to support performers to weather this period of hardship. It is set up to be paid in two instalments across a period of four months. Up to the end of last year, about 5,500 performers received their first instalment of EUR 4,500. Now, the second instalment of EUR 500 is due to be paid out.

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.

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.

Producers can check out your individual distribution results and payout notifications and statements on label.gvl.

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