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The International Authors Award has been given to the Spanish director and screenplay writer, Imanol Uribe. He is the author of, among other works, the movie El rey pasmado (The Dumbfounded King), which received several Goya awards. This movie is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Imanol Uribe, who has also already been […]

The announced privatization of channel 1 of the Portuguese public service television (RTP) would, in SPA’s opinion, be a serious mistake for the future of television in Portugal. First of all, because  subjects that would surely have no interest for private television stations, which are more worried about audience ratings and advertising revenues, would be

SPA has ensured that the third edition of the Author Award Gala will take place in 2012 with RTP, thus maintaining this event that is so prestigious for SPA. RTP has also acknowledged the importance of colaborating in this domain and the quality achieved by the Gala within the Portuguese public TV channel’s programming. During

SPA was present at GESAC’s (European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers) extraordinary meeting, that took place last February 8th in Brussels, where the recent positions of the European Commission on the collective management of copyright in the digital music single market were under review. SPA was represented by the Cooperative’s President, José Jorge

A delegation from SPA went to Spain in order to participate in some work meetings with VEGAP, the visual arts management society of the neighboring country. That delegation, made up of Ms. Vanda Guerra, Director of the International Relations Department, Mr. Alexandre Miranda, who is in charge of Distribution, and Ms. Rita Duarte from ALA

The 20th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright has taken place in Geneva on June 21-24, 2010. Portugal was represented by the Ministry of Culture and SPA, which enjoys the status of observer. The agenda of this meeting, which brought together several tens of delegations from all over the

On the eve of the opening of the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival and a few days after the publication of the European Commission’s long-awaited Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries, a new organisation defending the rights of European audiovisual authors was launched in Brussels. At a press conference that took place today in

The First Meeting of Portuguese Speaking Societies of Authors (I Encontro Lusófono de Sociedades de Autores) took place last November 10th at SPA’s head office. Brazilian, Angolan, Mozambican and Cape Verdean societies of authors took part in this initiative organised by SPA, as well as the host itself. Furthermore, the Meeting happened under the auspices