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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

SPA with its AUTORES program, resulting from years of cooperation with TVI in the field of television communication, won the trophy for Best Cultural Information Program at the Impala Television Trophy Gala. The awards, attributed by a vote of the readers of the magazines edited by Impala (TV 7 Days / Nova Gente and VIP)

“Globalization has seen a growing number of technological giants with immense power to obtain creative content at low cost. Cisac calls on governments to create this right: to channel the fair value of creative works to creators who created them and not to digital platforms that exploit legal gaps in order to earn money, “said

José Jorge Letria More than 250 leaders of authors’ societies from around the world make of Lisbon on 8 June and throughout this week the global capital of the debate on the collective management of copyright. Many people from many countries and continents will be present who require policy makers, regardless of their degree of

“The European Commission wants to ensure cultural diversity, the widest circulation of cultural and artistic works by all the countries of the European Union, and to increase the number of professional opportunities for all the creators of our countries” – it was with these words that Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission with the

SPA, in response to a request by the Operational Command of the Republican National Guard (GNR), was welcomed on the 26th of May in the facilities of said institution in Largo do Carmo and was given the opportunity to approach matters of relevance for both institutions. The SPA delegation was composed of Board Member Paula

Portuguese Authors Society (SPA) will be promoting in June 6th, in Theater of Trindade, at 9pm, a show that celebrates lusophony as value of communication and civilization, to coincide with the week in which the Annual General Assembly of CISAC takes place in Lisbon, bringing to Portugal over two hundred and half of leaders from

SPA expresses its satisfaction for the victory of Salvador Sobral at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, with the song “Amar pelos Dois” whos author is the singer-author Luísa Sobral, Salvador’s sister. Salvador Sobral is a member of SPA since 2016 and Luísa Sobral since 2010. The victory of this song, sang and always assumed

Born on February 24, 1927, David Mourão-Ferreira would have completed 90 years of life this year, which is why SPA, of which he presided the Assembly General in the 1990s, will remember him with a photographic exhibition that will be open to the public in its building 2 in mid-June. Deceased on June 16th, 1996,