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Sociedad General De Autores Y Editores
The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (''Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE'') is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain. It is similar to AGADU, ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ..., GEMA, SADAIC, Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, SACEM and SAYCO. The philologist, poet, composer, scriptwriter, movie and television director and producer Antón Reixa (1957) is the Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 2012. SGAE was founded in 1889 as Society of Authors of Spain. In 1995, its name changed to Society of Authors and Publishers, seeking to accommodate cultural editors. SGAE comprises more than 100,000 music, audiovisual and dramatic creators. Created in 1899, its main m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio Longoria (Madrid) 07
The Palace of Longoria (Spanish: ''Palacio de Longoria'') is an Art Nouveau palace that the politician and financier Francisco Javier González Longoria ordered to be built in the district of Chueca, at the corner of Fernando VI and Pelayo streets, in the city of Madrid, Spain. Together with the House of Gallardo (Spanish: Casa Gallardo) in the Plaza de España, it is Madrid's most notable example of modernist architecture. Longoria contracted the Catalán architect José Grases Riera to design and build it in 1902. It was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural'' in 1996 and is currently the headquarters of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (''Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE'') is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain. It is similar to AGADU, ASCAP The American Society of Com ... (SGAE). References External links Palaces in Madrid Bien de Interés C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BMG Rights Management
BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is an international music company based in Berlin, Germany. It combines the activities of a music publisher and a record label. BMG was founded in October 2008 after Bertelsmann sold its stake in Sony BMG. From 2009 to 2013, the investment firm KKR held 51% of the company, which became one of the world's largest music publishers during that time. BMG is 100% owned by Bertelsmann and one of the group's eight business divisions. The portfolio includes rights in songs and recordings by artists such as Kylie Minogue, Craig David, Avril Lavigne, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, The Cranberries, David Bowie, Roger Waters, Iggy Pop, Quincy Jones, Lenny Kravitz Morrissey, 5 Seconds of Summer, KSI, Eraserheads, Rivermaya. and Peter Frampton. History Music at Bertelsmann In the 1950s, Bertelsmann entered the music business when it added music to its book club. Ariola, a record label, was launched and Sonopress, a pressing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance Rights Organisation
A performance rights organisation (PRO), also known as a performing rights society, provides intermediary functions, particularly collection of royalties, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works ''publicly'' in locations such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer ''private'' performance rights. PROs usually only collect royalties when use of a work is incidental to an organisation's purpose. Royalties for works essential to an organisation's purpose, such as theaters and radio, are usually negotiated directly with the rights holder. The interest of the organisations varies: many have the sole focus of musical works, while others may also encompass works and authors for audiovisual, drama, literature, or the visual arts. In some countries PROs are called copyright collectives or copyright collecting agencies. A copyright collective is more general than a PRO as it is not limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau International De L'Edition Mecanique
The Bureau International de l'Edition Mécanique (BIEM), also known as Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique, is an organisation coordinating statutory licence agreements among different countries. It administers mechanical rights, ensuring payment of royalties to the creators of musical, literary and dramatic work), which may be reproduced on a CD or DVD, or through digital means, such as downloads from the Internet. The members of mechanical rights societies are composers, authors and publishers. Founded in 1929, BIEM is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and represents 53 societies, from 58 countries. Its role is to aid collaboration between member societies and to assist in solving problems arising among individual members and/or user groups. It represents the interests of its member societies, including in forums relating to authors' rights, such as WIPO, UNESCO, TRIPS and the WCO. See also *List of BIEM mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embezzlement
Embezzlement is a crime that consists of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes. Embezzlement is a type of financial fraud. For example, a lawyer might embezzle funds from the trust accounts of their clients; a financial advisor might embezzle the funds of investors; and a husband or a wife might embezzle funds from a bank account jointly held with the spouse. The term "embezzlement" is often used in informal speech to mean theft of money, usually from an organization or company such as an employer. Embezzlement is usually a premeditated crime, performed methodically, with precautions that conceal the criminal conversion of the property, which occurs without the knowledge or consent of the affected person. Often it involves the trusted individual embezzling only a small proportion of the total of the funds or resources they receive or co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuenteovejuna
''Fuenteovejuna'' () is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. First published in Madrid in 1619, as part of ''Docena Parte de las Comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio'' (''Volume 12 of the Collected plays of Lope de Vega Carpio''),Edwards, Gwynne, ed. and trans. ''Lope de Vega, Three Major Plays'' (with ''The Knight of Olmedo'' and ''Punishment without Revenge''). Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xii. the play is believed to have been written between 1612 and 1614. The play is based upon a historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna in Castile, in 1476. While under the command of the Order of Calatrava, a commander, Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, mistreated the villagers, who banded together and killed him. When a magistrate sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon arrived at the village to investigate, the villagers, even under the pain of torture, responded only by saying "Fuenteovejuna did it." Background Rapid change took place in Spain in the years betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodas De Sangre
''Blood Wedding'' ( es, link=no, Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theatre critics often group ''Blood Wedding'' with Garcia Lorca's ''Yerma'' and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' as the "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca's planned "trilogy of the Spanish earth" remained unfinished at the time of his death, as he did not include ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' in this group of works. Characters * La Madre – The Mother of the Groom * El Novio – The Groom * La Novia – The Bride * El Padre De La Novia – The Father of The Bride * Leonardo * La Mujer De Leonardo – Leonardo's wife * La Suegra de Leonardo – Leonardo's Mother-in-law * La Criada – The Maid * La Vecina – The Neighbour (woman) * Muchachas – Girls * La Luna – The Moon * La Muerte (como mendiga) – Death (as a beggar) * Leñadores – Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centro Dramático Nacional
The Centro Dramático Nacional ("National Drama Centre" or CDN) is a Madrid-based Spanish theatre company operating under the Instituto de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (Institute for Performing Arts and Music), an autonomous body of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. It is headquartered in two theatres: the Teatro María Guerrero Teatro may refer to: * Theatre * Teatro (band) Teatro, Italian for "theatre", is a vocal group signed to the Sony BMG music label. The members of Teatro are Jeremiah James, Andrew Alexander, Simon Bailey and Stephen Rahman-Hughes. Band member ... and the Teatro Valle-Inclán. External links * National theatres Theatre companies in Spain {{theater-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with '' Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángeles González-Sinde
Ángeles González-Sinde Reig (born 7 April 1965) is a Spanish scriptwriter, film director and politician. She served as Minister of Culture of the Government of Spain from April 2009 until December 2011. Her appointment was received with anger and rejection by the Spanish Internet Community, due to González-Sinde's opposition to P2P file sharing and the alleged conflict of interest due to her ties to the film industry. A strict anti-piracy law enacted in Spain in December 2011 has become known colloquially as Ley Sinde, or the Sinde Law, as she was seen as the primary backer of the measure. Biography Ángeles González-Sinde Reig was born 7 April 1965. She is the daughter of the academy's founder, José María González-Sinde, Sr. Her brother, José María González-Sinde, Jr., is also involved in the film industry. González-Sinde studied Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid and did a master's degree in Cinema Scriptwriting at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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