• Controversy: The president of SGAE dismisses the technical leadership of the entity to put a friend of his and a lawyer of the 'Wheel'
  • Irregularities: The president of SGAE approves the conditions of her friend's management contract without going through any governing body
  • Appointment: Pilar Jurado, new president of SGAE, denies her relationship with the 'Rueda': "I was totally scammed"

Pilar Jurado came to the presidency of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) at the end of February. In this half year at the head of the copyright management entity, not only external problems have increased, such as the expulsion of the international federation CISAC or the threat of intervention by the Ministry of Culture, but also that the internal problems. Among them, the constant changes and dismissals in the organization. Just two weeks after arriving in office, he removed from his position the secretary general, Carlos López, and the general director, Gerardo Rodríguez. In substitution of the latter, Miguel Ángel Recio entered, who has been dismissed this Thursday, six months after his inauguration.

THE WORLD published at the time that the signing of Recio arrived with a four-year armor. In the event that Recio was removed from the general management during the first two years, he would receive two annuities from his salary (180,000 euros, plus another 40,000 in bonus). If it were in the third year, it would receive 18 months, while if it were in the fourth year, it would receive six months. Sources of the entity aware of the details of his contract indicate that Recio would take more than 400,000 euros for half a year of work .

One of the victims of this course of dismissals, the aforementioned Carlos López, gives his vision to EL MUNDO: "I have been registered in the bar association for almost 40 years, of which 30 I have worked in collective management: 10 years in SGAE - I was the famous lawyer of the 'digital canon' - 11 in AIE and the last 5 in SGAE ", he enumerates. "Sometimes I have raised the cause of my departure. Although, basically, a position of trust does not have to raise that issue: Trust is granted and removed without the need for a specific cause. I am very grateful to the board SGAE board of directors, which in August 2014 placed its trust in me and that, of course, I respect and abide by the decision that that board made in March 2019 ".

"Of course," says López, "I am very pleased to have achieved that the Deontological Commission could issue its report on the conflicts of interest that certain members of that board may have. That they should basically be satisfied and give thanks because it is a sign of transparency. "

He will replace Recio Juan Carlos Angaramo , a person linked to the SGAE since the time when Teddy Bautista was presiding over the board of directors and whom Antón Reixa threw after arriving at the presidency. According to a note sent by SGAE, the new general director, "with an accredited technical profile", has developed "his entire professional career in the sector of collective management entities, both in Spain and Latin America." Likewise, "he accumulates a deep knowledge of the SGAE, in which he has served as director of the Department of International Management (2003-2012) and general delegate in Latin America (1990-2003)".

Withdraw the right to vote for dissenters

In this note it has also been announced that the General Assembly of Partners, scheduled for next October 3 and in which the new statutes of the entity will be voted again after they were rejected last June, moves to next day 15 "to make it compatible with the institutional agenda of the entity". That is, so that it does not coincide with a jury concert that day.

This assembly is expected to be equally conflictive, given that in the meetings of the SGAE management bodies it has been stated that the authors and publishers who announced their intention to withdraw their works from the entity on December 31 should not have the right to vote . Among them would be important names such as Julio Iglesias, Joaquín Sabina and José Luis Perales, among others.

Sources of society and the DAMA entity , chaired by Borja Cobeaga and which brings together 'exiled' filmmakers from SGAE, denounce that it would be the first time a similar case occurred, and set as an example the Assembly held in December 2018. , presided over by the piper José Ángel Hevia, the statutory reform was also rejected, and in it those authors who announced their intention to go to DAMA on January 1, 2019 and who notified their decision several months before the Assembly.

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