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In December 2020, GVL is going to run a final distribution for sound recordings to producers for the first time, in line with the new Collecting Societies Act.

Good news for creatives: With GVL as its main and founding partner, Initiative Musik is going to implement as many as three sub-programmes as part of the rescue and future programme NEUSTART KULTUR.

In an extraordinary meeting on 19 August, the Assembly of Shareholders and Delegates (GudV) adopted new regulations on the remaining open budgets.

On Monday, 31 August 2020, GVL will launch the remuneration payout process to its eligible performers as part of the closing distribution for the years 2013 and 2014

As a result of a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), certain remuneration entitlements under Sections 27, 54, 54a and 54c of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) are no longer subject to VAT.

At the beginning of August, GVL paid out a total of 3.6 million Euros from international distributions to approximately 11,500 performers. This includes remuneration from the USA, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands, among others.

GVL completely revised its label.gvl producer portal at the end of May.

The VUT, Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs - is now the fourth shareholder of GVL, the Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH.

Today, GVL began paying out the remuneration as part of the subsequent distributions 2013 to 2018.