Dates

In the meeting of the GEMA Supervisory Board on 8 December 2021, Supervisory Board and Managing Committee of GEMA decided to postpone the migration of the share pictures to the new derivation logic to 1 June 2022. This is intended to ensure that there is enough time for an adequate preparation for the transfer of the entire work inventory to the new derivation logic.

Comprehensive checks and a good understanding of the deviations that have taken place is required, in particular for the analysis of the deviation reports. In addition, the work category “asymmetric works” requires special attention so that the royalties will be paid out correctly to the participants. Checking asymmetric creator-publisher relationships and correcting them in the documentation need an intensive exchange of information between the publishers participating in the work.  The tight schedule in the case of a migration on 1 April 2022 would not be enough to work on this special subject and applying the necessary quality.  Any arising quality deficiencies could lead to certain consequences in the course of the distribution. That is why the migration has been postponed to 1 June 2022.