GWVR to give promoters cut of concert recordings

The BDV-backed collection society will enable event organisers to earn royalties from audiovisual content, such as live albums and concert films, captured at German shows

News By IQ | 10 February 2017

BDV's 2015–18 executive board, with Jens Michow third from right © BDV

New German collection society GWVR has published details of its tariffs in German government gazette the Bundesanzeiger, launching officially after more than a decade in development.

GWVR (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Veranstalterrechten, Society for the Exercise of Promoters’ Rights), a subsidiary of promoters’ and agents’ association BDV, was approved as Germany’s 13th collection society in 2014 by the German Patent and Trademark Office, with its governing board meeting for the first time at the Live Entertainment Awards in Frankfurt the…

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