Ricardo Pinto POR

The creation of the Latin American Federation of Societies of Authors is of the utmost importance at the moment in which we are succeeding in Latin America to begin to have societies that are already in a stage of authorization to initiate the activities of collection and the collection in their respective countries. This will give us much more power of representation, a strength also in the face of a change of opinion about awareness of what copyright is in our territory, in our countries and how this network of international solidarity can benefit us. Today in Brazil we are celebrating the announcement of the authorization to start the activities of collection of copyright in the territory of our country, for our rights holders and for our represented, the directors of other countries, with which we already have contracts of reciprocal representation. The DBCA, which represents the repertoire of Brazilian directors, and GEDAR, which represents the repertoire of Brazilian writers, are now ready to begin structuring the collection activities and is a new stage. It is a big challenge and now we need to start a dialogue with those who use our works, the users of works, civil society, all and especially our creators, that we have the rights and the rights are there to be our societies.