50 Jahre GVL - 50 Jahre kollektive Rechtewahrnehmung der Leistungsschutzrechte

The 50-year anniversary of the German collecting society for performing artists, record producers and organizers, the “German Collecting Society for Performance Rights (GVL)”, was marked by a symposium sponsored by the Institute for the Legal Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright, Humboldt-University of Berlin, in the fall of 2009. The now published and revised contributions to the symposium address a variety of topics including a historical review of the GVL, a critical analysis of German collecting societies' situation in light of European competition as well as the expectations of performance artists, record producers and users with regard to the GVL.


Tilo Gerlach und Guido Evers, Geschäftsführer der Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten, Berlin