Gema paid out 1.277 billion euros, thanks to more expensive tickets and the end of the corona measures. More than one billion euros are to be distributed to the rights holders.
At the same time, there are warnings about risks from AI and streaming. Gema represents the copyrights of over 94,000 rights holders such as composers, lyricists and music publishers as well as over two million rights holders worldwide. It distributes the revenue to them when copyrighted songs are played.