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There are several ways to look at national maps and to realize the multiple realities that they hold within themselves. Maps must be the face of a unity that also embraces diversity and contradiction. Too bad it will be if the maps become fragile propaganda instruments of a cohesion that does not exist. Portugal, for […]

SPA – Portuguese Society of Authors and the AHP – Hotel Association of Portugal signed today, the 27th of September, the new protocol that regulates the remuneration due to the authors represented by SPA for the use of its works in the associated tourist ventures of AHP. This protocol covers the functions of ambient music, public

SPA decided to assign to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and UN Secretary-General António Guterres the title of honorary members of the cooperative as a way of recognizing the importance that both have always attributed to culture, in the exercise of their functions, as an essential instrument for the dignification of democracy and human being.

SPA is going to launch the “Map of Portuguese Authors” initiative, making it possible to identify the birthplace of some of our most important, already dead writers, composers and visual artists on the map of Portugal. This will highlight the importance of cultural creation for our collective identity. The initiative, which is born of an

The Portuguese Society of Authors participated in the African Committee of CISAC, which took place from 25 to 28 July in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, and where it was reaffirmed the importance of the Lusophone project that SPA has been developing and it was established that, the relevant documents of that Committee, or any other

SPA welcomes the results of the CULT and ITRE Committees who adopted on 21 June their opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules on the exercise of copyright and rights related to certain online transmissions of broadcasters and the retransmission of radio programs and

Yesterday, the Portuguese Newspaper DN (Diário de Notícias) published an article covering the landmark reciprocal agreement between Portuguese CMO SPA and Cape Verdean CMO SCM Available in Portuguese: Read here English version herein-under: The copyright of Cape Verdian artists in Portugal will be collected by Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA) under an agreement with the Cape

A delegation of SPA was in Rabat, capital of Morocco, to negotiate with the Moroccan Copyright Society a cooperation agreement that includes, in a prominent way, a reciprocity agreement, training sessions, IT support as well as possible legal support, and also an analysis of the company’s contacts with Google, among others. The leaders of the

The President of the Parliament, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, received in audience the President of SPA, José Jorge Letria, who informed him in detail about the success of the CISAC General Assembly held in Lisbon on June and on all the international events that took place in parallel to this event. He was also informed about the development of the

SPA expresses its deep regret at the tragic consequences of the fire that hit several locations in Pedrógão Grande and other places in the same geographical area, causing 62 deaths and more than 60 injuries with different degrees of severity. SPA calls on public decision-makers to look for ways of combining the civil protection intervention