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The Portuguese Society of Authors, in partnership with the University of Lisbon / ISCSP, is promoting a study aimed at identifying the profile of the Portuguese author, a work that is of fundamental importance in order to perceive how they live, what expectations they have and what difficulties they face, among other variables, the associates […]

The Portuguese Society of Authors urges the government to be firm in the negotiations for the opening of Google and Amazon facilities in Portugal, namely at Lagoas Park and in Porto, respectively. The Minister for Culture already had a meeting with the US ambassador to Portugal about this. SPA believes that no economic imperatives can

SPA’s President, José Jorge Letria, and the leader of Abramus (Brazil), Roberto de Mello, had a work meeting in Lisbon in which they made a detailed analysis of the copyright situation in Europe and the Americas, as well as of the actions carried out by CISAC (headquartered in Paris) and GESAC (headquartered in Brussels), showing

SPA Board member Paula Cunha participated as an invited trainer for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), United Nations agency, at the training seminar on the management of copyright and related rights in the audiovisual sector for collecting societies of French expression, which took place on 9 and 10 January in El Jadida (Morocco). This

SPA has just developed a mobile application (‘app’) that allows its members to access information on mobile devices available on the Members Portal. This portal is a tool developed by SPA that allows its members to access the information that is most relevant to them in the management of their rights, and to interact, more

Portuguese scientist António Damásio, Portuguese neurologist and neuroscientist who works exemplary in the study of the brain and emotions accepted to receive the Prize of Life and Work that SPA will assign to him in the CCB in Lisbon, on the next 20 of March, during the annual gala that there will take place. In

SPA and the Ministry of Culture, meeting on the morning of the 20th, reached a convergence of views on the issues raised by the cooperative on the new Law on Collective Management Entities and agreed to continue the work in the now consensual terms. With the clarification that has now been reached, based on a

Paula Cunha, SPA Board member, participated as a guest speaker from WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), a United Nations Agency, at the WIPO sub-regional meeting for copyright authorities in Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, which took place on November 30 and December 1 in São Tomé. WIPO stated that SPA’s role in Lusophone is unavoidable and

José Jorge Letria Portugal has moved from the aftermath of the fires, with many dead to mourn and arduous accounts to make, to the superior level of modernity of ideas, technologies and business with the Web Summit that brought to Lisbon representatives from 170 countries, more than 2,500 journalists and 1,200 speakers. It’s noteworthyWe need

Aware of the seriousness of the damage caused by the fires of 15 October and following days to many hundreds of people and entire regions, SPA took the decision to immediately associate itself with solidarity actions aimed at reducing the many shortcomings with which inevitably are faced. The world of culture is not and never