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The SPA, in an joint effort with the entities representing several creative and information sectors, led a session held today at the Casa da Imprensa to make public an appeal to Portuguese MEPs on the proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Market. On September 12, the European Parliament will have the historic […]

 The community of authors chose, in an election held on the 19th of November 2018, the managing bodies that will, under the presidency of José Jorge Letria, govern SPA in the quadrennium 2019-2022. The single list obtained a strong of 304 votes, the highest vote ever in the history of SPA.  The board of the General Assembly will

The proposal for a directive on Copyright in the Digital single market presented by the Committee on Legal Affairs (Commission JURI) was rejected in the plenary vote of the European Parliament  on July 5, fact that concerns the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA), as well as other European copyright societies. The SPA, in collaboration with

At a time we are discussing the present and future of Lusophony, subject which will be at the center of the forthcoming debate of the leaders of the CPLP – Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, SPAutores reaffirms the strategic importance it attaches to cooperation of collecting societies representing authors and its desire to create a confederation

SPA is pleased about the celebration of the Portuguese Language and Culture in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries Day on May 5 in several countries, underlining the importance and relevance of the words of António Guterres, UN’s Secretary-General, in New York, and of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of the Portuguese Republic, on the

Under the presidency of José Jorge Letria, it was held in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, on 4 and 5 April, the annual general meeting of the European Committee of Societies of Authors of CISAC comprising 104societies of authors from all over the continent. This committee was chaired until this Assembly by José Jorge Letria, President

SPA regrets that the Assembly of the Republic has approved the proposal of a law that grants the government authorization to legislate on the decriminalization of the commercial use of protected content. With this measure, adopted on 29 March with the favorable votes of PS, PCP and BE, abstention from CDS-PP and PSD against votes,

The Annual Report and Accounts of SPA corresponding to 2017 were approved with 147 votes in favor, two against and five abstentions at the extraordinary general meeting held on 28 March in the Carlos Paredes gallery room in building 2 of the cooperative. The Transparency Report obtained 114 votes in favor, two votes against and

SPA, in accordance with the praise it has sent to the authors of scientific works whom it wishes that become associated with the cooperative, has decided to create an annual prize to be awarded to the Portuguese author of the best book of scientific divulgation published the previous year. The award will be named José

SPA was received in audience by Francis Gurry, Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Geneva-based United Nations agency. At this meeting, which took place in a climate of great sympathy and cordiality, subjects of various kinds were dealt with, from a geopolitical reflection on culture and copyright in the world to the