The SPA congratulates RTP for the marking today, March 7, of the 60th anniversary of the birth of television in Portugal and recalls the fundamental role of authors in general and some in particular for the implementation and success of the Public television station. Consistent with what it always have defended, SPA expressed the hope […]
The president of SPA, José Jorge Letria, met with the general director of VEGAP, of Spain, and with the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of CISAC Javier Gutiérrez, who has accompanied the activities of our cooperative and in particular the Lusophone cooperation project, which was also the subject of information and analysis in this
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The president of the Spanish authors’ society SGAE went to Lisbon to discuss with the president of SPA, on Wednesday, February 8th, aspects related to the activity of the two societies and their visions and the actions they can take to strengthen the societies of authors in southern Europe. Composer and producer of prestige, José
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The director general of the Portuguese Society of Authors, Paula Cunha, will travel to Cape Verde from the 12th to 18th of February at the invitation of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations agency, based in Geneva. This mission, for which WIPO requested the support of the Director-General of the Cooperative aims to
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The annual general meeting of the CISAC European Committee, chaired by José Jorge Letria, will take place in Moscow on 5th and 6th of April, with sessions to be held at the National Moscow Hotel and hosted by the Russian society RAO. The European Committee held its 2016 general meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the
A delegation of the SPA met in Brussels on the 11th and 12th of January with the Portuguese MEPs Ana Gomes, António Marinho e Pinto, Carlos Coelho, Carlos Zorrinho and Marisa Matias, representing various areas of political intervention and thinking about copyright and culture issues. During these meetings, the President of SPA informed the MEPs
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SPA expresses its regret for the death of Dr. Mario Soares, who was three times Prime Minister of constitutional governments and twice President of the Republic, besides having also been a deputy, MEP and once again candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. Mário Soares was always, before and after April 25th , a man
The SPA Medal of Honour was delivered on March 8th in Coimbra, by the President of the cooperative, José Jorge Letria, to Manuel Machado, President of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities and of the Coimbra Chamber, during the municipal convention that marked the passage of the 40 years of local democratic power. The President
SPA’s annual TV gala will be held at the CCB (Belém Cultural Center) again in 2017 after having exceptionally taken place at the Teatro D. Maria II national theater this year. The date agreed with the RTP and CCB executives is the 15th of March of next year, and the event will be broadcast live
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President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa delivered the insignia of the Order of Freedom to the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA) early in the afternoon of December 1 at the Belém Palace (Lisbon). José Jorge Letria, SPA’s President, received this honor on behalf of the society, which is now an honorary member of the mentioned order. The President of the
