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 Last 26 March, SPA’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the cooperative’s new organizational chart, which makes its operation more agile and transparent, and better able to answer the needs of its cooperative members. Above all, it allows for a modernization which is essential in a company that needs to be prepared for the huge present […]

A delegation of the Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan, comprised of two of its senior staff members, has visited SPA to acquire a more direct knowledge of the Portuguese copyright management reality, namely in what concerns the way SPA is organized and operates, as well its relationship with the respective supervisory entity. This visit took place

SPA’s President of the Board & CEO, Mr. José Jorge Letria, was elected last May 10th in Brussels for the newly created Board of the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC). This new governing body is composed of nine leaders of other European author’s societies. Therefore, besides SPA’s CEO it includes top

TVI 24 is already recording the first episodes of the “Autores”(Authors) show’s new season, which will be aired this month on a date and time to be announced. The program, which is under the responsability of SPA and this TV station, is hosted by Paulo Sérgio Santos, who has already been SPA’s voice and face

Message from Director General Francis Gurry World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity to celebrate the contribution that intellectual property makes to innovation and cultural creation – and the immense good that these two social phenomena bring to the world. It is an opportunity to create greater understanding about the role of intellectual property as

On April 19th and 20th, the annual general meeting of CISAC’s (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) European Committee took place at the Hotel Altis, in Lisbon. The European Committee is one of CISAC’s main regional bodies and it issues the guidelines of  the Confederation’s policy for the European territory. This Committee coordinates

SPA’s Board of Directors presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Mário Soares for his work as a book author, namely for Incursões Literárias (Literary Incursions) or the recent Um Político Assume-se (Proud to Be a Politician). SPA’s Board has also highlighted the award winner’s contribution to increase the value of culture in Portugal, which

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