The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has partially accepted the appeal of a man who was sentenced to four years in prison for plagiarizing and selling 15 works of art attributed to artists such as Eduardo Chillada, Roy Lichtenstein to an auction house in Madrid. and Edward Munch. The judges maintained a year and nine months in prison for him for the crime of fraud, but they acquitted him of the crime against intellectual property: “Curious and paradoxical as it may be, attributing to famous artists what was not created by them is not, in this case, a crime against intellectual property”.

The decision issued on June 6 by the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJM to which El Confidencial has had access thus revokes part of the conviction issued in February by the Provincial Court of Madrid, although it maintains the full account of proven facts. Guillermo Chamorro signed a mediation contract with the auction house Setdart, based in Madrid, in 2018. The agreement was for the sale of 16 works of art attributed to 15 artists of which 15 are fraudulent copies made by himself or by other people. The fake batch included six serigraphs and a lithograph by Chillida, a lithograph by Munch, another by Lichtenstein, another by Saul Steinberg and five by José Guerrero.

All the works were intervened by the XXVII Group of Crimes against Intellectual Property of the National Police after a complaint filed in 2019 by a client who had acquired a false Chillida lithograph. Munch did not have rights to the works because he died more than 75 years ago and, in the case of Lichtenstein and Steinberg, the owners of their rights are not registered with the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) and were not in person. in the cause. But, for the holders of the rights of Guerrero and Chillida, the Provincial Court imposed on the defendant the obligation to compensate them with 48,000 euros and 39,700 euros, respectively..

Plagiarism, according to the RAE

The defendant filed an appeal under the representation of the Ospina Abogados firm and now the TSJM frees him from going to prison by partially accepting his arguments in what has to do with the crime of intellectual property. The judges describe the facts as “acts of plagiarism of known works or what is to say forgeries that are intended to pass off as authentic works of the authors, the object of plagiarism being works of a clear artistic nature.”. The sentence stops to analyze the word plagiarism etymologically: “According to the Royal Academy of Language, it is substantially copying the works of others, giving them as their own”.

“Not all infringement – added the judges – of the author's moral and patrimonial or exploitation rights, of the so-called intellectual property rights, constitutes a crime. The facts described in the account of proven facts are easily conceivable as damaging, at least morally, for the authors who are falsely attributed screen prints that were not theirs.. They could be fraud and civilly reprehensible but not as a crime against intellectual property “. For this crime, he had been sentenced to two years and three months in prison..

However, the TSJM does consider the crime of fraud proven: “The presence of an unequivocal fraud typical of fraud is easily concluded. The appellant knew perfectly well that the authors to whom he attributed them were not the creators of the silkscreens, but he took advantage of such fame to deploy, with the clear intention of illicit enrichment, such a ruse to consummate the sale, thus concurring with deception”.

Andalusia needs new approaches to combat the drought and cannot simply wait for luck to rain. This is at least the opinion of the Junta, whose government is finalizing a decree-law that it expects to approve shortly and through which it will allocate eight million euros to help companies, researchers and other groups develop innovative solutions to combat the drought..

The Minister of University, Research and Innovation, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, has made this announcement precisely before the representatives of various public and private companies gathered by the Andalusian Technology Corporation (CTA) at the CSIC (Higher Center for Scientific Research) headquarters..

The representative of the Andalusian Government recalled that “we are in the worst drought in the last 500 years” and for this reason last autumn the Junta activated the platform for innovative projects PLAAnd Sequía Andalucía in order to take care of the “reception, identification, analysis and transfer of initiatives, inventions and innovative projects that contribute to mitigate, from the field of research and innovation, the effects of water scarcity that characterizes Andalusia in an exceptionally dry year”.

In just a few months, the online platform launched has received 93 solutions provided by 75 entities, of which 59 are from Andalusia and 16 from outside. Of the set of ideas, 66.6% (62) are promoted by companies, while the rest have been promoted by research groups and R&D centers.

Among these proposals, there are projects of all kinds, from the one presented by a company from Lucena (Córdoba) to generate up to 10,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere for human consumption or agriculture to the use of microalgae for water treatment. sewage, smart irrigation, crop monitoring, use of drones to detect water leaks in aerial pipes, application of artificial intelligence, water recirculation systems in homes, among others. In addition to these projects, there are also others that include technologies that avoid the waste of cold water that occurs when the user wants to use hot water..

Most of the solutions listed fall into the category of agriculture, fishing, water and rural development (84), although they also offer measures for the needs raised in other areas such as industry, energy and mines; sustainability, environment and blue economy; emergencies and civil protection; infrastructures, articulation of the territory and housing, and tourist activity, culture and sport.

Given this active participation of numerous companies, researchers and public bodies, the Board has decided to go one step further and financially support the development of some of these solutions or others that are presented.. For this, the Andalusian Government will shortly approve (foresees before the summer) a decree-law by which it will dedicate eight million euros to help various projects.

The call for incentives will be competitive and will receive European financing, through Feder Funds, which represents 85% of the amount; and own resources, which represent the remaining 15%. To benefit from this programme, the initiatives must have a minimum budget of 250,000 euros and the subsidy from the regional administration may cover from 40% to 100% of the amount depending on the type of project and applicant entity..

These projects must have a maximum execution period of 24 months, so the Board requests that these solutions already have a significant degree of technological maturity (between TRL5 and TRL9).. Companies, Innovative Business Groups (AEI), public research organizations, universities and technology centers that research in this field or that have designed a technological tool that helps to alleviate the problem of water scarcity, individually or in a group (maximum six participants).

The Andalusian Knowledge Agency (integrated into Trade) is the body in charge of this project, with which it aims to “promote the transfer of knowledge between the different agents of the Andalusian system, as well as gain efficiency, speed and effectiveness in research, products and services in which the different research groups or companies in the region work”.

This conference was closed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Carmen Crespo, who encouraged researchers and companies to look for these “future solutions in which Andalusia is willing to lead the fight against drought in Spain ”.

The representative of the Board regretted that water governance is “so complex and poorly structured, with the powers distributed among so many administrations that it makes management more difficult, especially in times of deficit like the current one”.

Likewise, he has boasted that 42% of all the works of the Board are in water infrastructures and has indicated that “it is only the beginning because there is no turning back and we have all realized how essential water is for the future”. It has also requested agility from the Government to resolve the request of 13 Andalusian companies that are waiting for the award of European funds through the Perte (strategic plan) of water.

Representatives of Emasesa, Aguas del Huesna and Hidralia participated in the conference, who explained their experiences as innovative entities for which technology has been an ally in the management of the integral water cycle. For their part, Genaq, Inerco, Magtel and Sando showed environmental technological solutions to the water challenge, while Agualytics, Ayesa, Cibernos and GMV explained some innovative digital solutions to improve water management.

A one meter alligator has appeared in a pond on a farm in Illescas (Toledo). The owners of the property were astonished when they found the exotic animal in the water, which had to be rescued by Seprona.

The owners who found the alligator in the farm's lake notified the animal protection service, which had the help of the Koki zoo staff for the “titanic” rescue. “They activated all the operatives and the necessary equipment was prepared to face this challenge,” they say from the zoo's Instagram account.

The alligator attacked one of the captors

The work was “an odyssey” and the large reptile attacked one of his captors when he tried to get him out of there. “We did not give up and after many failed attempts, dives and various capture strategies, we achieved our goal: we managed to capture the specimen, a 1-meter-long male,” they explain..

As they did not have “adequate facilities to subsequently house this species” they had the collaboration of Safari Madrid for their displacement to a safer habitat. The alligator did not have an identification chip, so its origin is being investigated. From the zoo they alert that the species is common in the “pet” market and point out that it would be an “illegal abandoned pet”.

Agents of the #Seprona of the Civil Guard of #Illecas (Toledo), located a one-meter alligator in an irrigation raft and collaborated in its rescue.#NatureProtection pic.twitter.com/JX2N6t6i5u

– National Jucil (@jucilnacional) June 13, 2023

“We also want to remind you of the importance of thinking before acquiring an exotic animal as a pet. Each species has unique needs for its well-being. Before making the decision to have an exotic animal, research and get advice on its habitat, diet, social interactions and medical needs,” they wrote on their Instagram account along with various images of the animal.

The Jucil Association, which has shared a video of the alligator in the water, has also echoed the unusual event.

This summer, young people will be able to enjoy their vacations to the fullest and travel at the most affordable price.. The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of the Government of Spain launches the 'Young Summer' plan through which up to 90% of bus and train trips made by Spanish or European young people residing in Spain and who are between 18 and 30 years.

The reductions will be applied on single round-trip tickets for state-owned trains and buses and Interrail passes with a travel date between June 15 and September 15, 2023. With this measure, the Government intends to promote the recovery of the tourism and cultural sector after the decline caused by the pandemic. In addition, its objective is to promote tourism by young Spaniards to both national and European destinations..

🔴Published the conditions for young people to travel this summer with discounts of up to 90% on bus 🚌 and train 🚆 tickets.

Consult them! 🔗👉https://t.co/uRj8g0i1PH

🗞️https://t.co/Gm3uI7b5L3 pic.twitter.com/YIVX2QLmLW

— Ministry of Transport, Mobility and A. Urban (@mitmagob) June 1, 2023

According to the requirements published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), young people must meet the following conditions to obtain discounts on public transport between June and September 2023:

• Being born between January 1, 1993 and December 31, 2005
• Have Spanish nationality or a member country of the European Union with legal residence in Spain

When to apply for the discount

Requesting this advantage is very simple. You must register in the form on the website of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to confirm that you meet the requirements. If so, you will receive a personal and non-transferable code that you must use to purchase the trips on the websites of the respective operators, which will be where the discounts will be applied..

In fact, you can already buy discounted tickets on the Renfe website. To do this, select the 'Young summer' option in the “Discounts, assistance services and promotional codes” section and enter the personal code. Regarding the deadlines, registration will be open from June 1, 2023 and must be done at least 24 hours before purchasing the first ticket.. The titles can be purchased as soon as the companies finalize the necessary technological changes.

Where the discounts apply

• Conventional medium-distance rail services and metric gauge: 90% reduction in the price of single and return tickets
• Avant: 50% discount on single and return tickets
• Commercial or high-speed services of all railway operators: 50% discount on the ticket price, with a maximum of 30 euros per ticket
• Regular bus services of state competition: discount of 90% of the price of the single ticket and the return ticket
• 50% discount on the Interrail Global Flexible for 10 days in 2 months, when marketed through Renfe

The president of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of Castilla-La Mancha, Fernando Mora, has once again offered to the PP to respect, in a reciprocal way, the most voted list in the municipalities of the region. The socialist proposal has been immediately rejected by the Popular Party.

“Any alternative that involves a party that claims to be in government, such as the PP, allying itself with a radical party, such as Vox, is not going to be good for coexistence and I believe that we must fight for the model of coexistence facilitates governance for all”, he said at a press conference.

In his opinion, it is not good for society to end up appointing mayors “people who are not going to govern for everyone, but who are going to see their policies conditioned by absolutely radical positions and who, of course, are not going to facilitate coexistence “.

“We, in Castilla-La Mancha, continue to maintain the most voted list, that the PP let the most voted list govern, which I believe is ultimately reasonable, to the extent that the citizens are the ones who have stated who wanted to govern them”, pointed out Mora.

“When Mr. Feijóo spoke about the list with the most votes, we thought he was serious, and we believe and want to believe that he still has some seriousness left,” said the socialist leader, who has asked the PP to make “a serious reflection ” about the future he wants for the citizenry.

And that future, Mora has concluded, involves trying to achieve the best for the citizens, which, in his opinion, would be achieved by respecting “in a reliable way” what they wanted at the polls, “which is that the party that governs has been voted the most”.

The case of Albacete

Regarding the fact that the PSOE does not rule out abstaining in Albacete, according to what could be deduced from the words pronounced this Tuesday by the acting mayor, Emilio Sáez, the socialist leader has said that it is a “possibility”.

“We are for facilitating the government to the most voted list”, but the PP must also support the most voted list “if it is socialist”. “That is our discourse”, he pointed out.

The Spanish Youth Council (CJE) has launched a survey to find out the concerns, needs, concerns and opinions regarding the current youth policy and place them at the center of the electoral debate before the next general elections (July 23)..

The survey, under the motto Break the glass!, seeks to know the opinion of young people regarding the imminent electoral call and also to find out their relationship with the political system, their attitudes towards political participation and, especially, their position before the issues that most affect them to make the data collected and its subsequent analysis available for public and political debate in the electoral campaign of 23J, as reported by the organization.

In this sense, the initiative aims to amplify, channel and promote the involvement of young people in the social, economic, political and cultural development of Spain.. The active listening process is available on the CJE digital participation platform, developed by the technology company Osoigo Next, and the participation period will be until June 30..

Agents of the National Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in Fuengirola (Málaga) as allegedly responsible for a verbal and physical assault on a transsexual woman on the promenade of said town.

The facts were reported at the Fuengirola Police Station by the victim, after being approached at dawn by an unknown person, who hurled various insults at her that violated her gender identity and, in addition, made a superficial cut on her arm with a weapon white, have reported from the National Police.

According to the investigation, which has been carried out by agents assigned to the Local Information Brigade of the Fuengirola Police Station, “the victim would have suffered a violent act –apparently gratuitous–, for no other manifest reason than what would be an attack to their gender identity”, they have indicated in a statement.

The night of the attack, the victim was with a friend, near a taxi rank, when they ran into a stranger, who began to utter insults directly attacking the gender identity of the transsexual woman.

Far from being intimidated, the victim reproached her attacker for the reason for those comments, starting a dispute between the parties, in which she received a superficial cut on one of the forearms, apparently with a knife..

After reporting the facts, the agents began an investigation that led to the location and arrest, based on the description provided by the victim, of the person responsible for the attack, who was recognized by the victim in the corresponding police investigation..

According to the Provincial Police Station, the Investigating Court number 1 of Fuengirola is aware of these facts. In addition, they have indicated that reporting this type of hate crime “helps prevent other events in the future”.

In this sense, they have recalled that any person who suspects they have been the victim of a hate crime can request advice through the channels provided by the Ministry of the Interior and, through 091, the National Police. “Reporting hate crimes helps the Security Forces and Bodies to prevent and prevent these events from happening again”, they have influenced.

The PP has excluded Vox from the table of the Murcia Parliament, as they requested to favor the investiture of the PP candidate to preside over the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, which could lead to the nine deputies that make up the parliamentary group of the party of Santiago Abascal to force the repetition of the regional elections.

The regional president of Vox in Murcia and parliamentary spokesman, José Ángel Antelo, said this Wednesday after the constitutive session of the Regional Assembly that “Genoa has decided that in the Region of Murcia it is necessary to go to elections”.

Visitación Martínez Martínez, deputy of the @PPRMurcia and lawyer by profession, elected president of the @asambleamurcia, during the constitutive session of the Chamber. pic.twitter.com/kbTqWc3dbf

— Regional Assembly of Murcia (@asambleamurcia) June 14, 2023

The Regional Assembly of Murcia, in a constituent session, has elected this Wednesday Visitación Martínez, from the Popular Party, as the new president of the Table, by obtaining the only support of the 21 votes that make up the popular bench.

In a press conference after the constitution of the autonomous Chamber and visibly angry, Antelo has assured that he feels “perplexed” to verify that the president of the Murcian PP and candidate to preside over the community, Fernando López Miras “has vetoed at the table” the presence of Vox, despite the fact that his party represents 18% of the electorate (9 of the 45 deputies).

From the first moment, he said, Vox has reached out to the PP to reach government agreements, “but Genoa has decided that in Murcia we have to go to elections”, he reiterated.

In his opinion, the “veto” of Vox is a national imposition, since López Miras “has no problem agreeing with whoever is necessary”, as he did in the last legislature, reaching agreements with defectors and maintaining a difficult stability, has indicated.

“We really continue with our hand outstretched, but the PP has just shown that it wants a call for elections,” he insisted, and regretted that in the few contacts held this Monday and Tuesday with the PP, the latter “has not offered us anything and He has asked us for everything in exchange for absolutely nothing”.

Yes, they will continue, he said, the pacts in the town halls, such as the one in Molina de Segura, where he has pointed out that the agreement with the PP is closed, although that party did not want to officially announce it.

Sources from the PP leadership have informed EFE that during the negotiations carried out with Vox, the popular were willing to give up one of their positions at the table but “never the presidency” because they consider that “it would be disproportionate” taking into account the representativeness of Abascal's party in the chamber.

According to the Statute of Autonomy of the Region of Murcia, once the parliament for this legislature is constituted, there is no deadline for the investiture debate to be held and if, after it, no candidate is sworn in as president, new regional elections could be called, unless they coincide with the celebration of the general elections.

The Generalitat of Catalonia is in the spotlight due to the prevalent use of Catalan in the classroom, which in some educational institutions can be extended to extracurricular activities. In this sense, the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB) of Catalonia has denounced the imposition of Catalan in extracurricular subjects at the Xaloc Institute in Sant Pere de Ribes (Barcelona).

According to what the AEB has shared on its official Twitter profile, the educational center contemplates the possibility that a teacher or an extracurricular monitor may not continue in their job if they do not use Catalan in said activities.. “When the person in charge of an extracurricular or complementary activity arrives, the reference teacher will be in charge of reminding him/her of the importance of using Catalan throughout the activity, regardless of the language used by the students”. This is how it is included in your approved language project for the current 2022-2023 academic year, which is now ending.

🔴In Catalonia you can find extracurricular activities in English, Chinese, Arabic, but
‼️ Oh if you use Spanish ‼️

🔴The Xaloc Institute of Sant Pere de Ribes, it is clear, to the extracurricular teacher who skips the norm and uses Spanish, is left without a job pic.twitter.com/9VO7e8AxZb

– AEB Catalunya (@AEBCatalunya) June 13, 2023

The biggest problem and the association's complaint is related to the clause regarding the non-use of said language. In the event that he is reminded of the importance of using Catalan and he continues to speak in Spanish, “it is necessary to notify the linguistic commission that will assess the possibility of not continuing with this activity”. “According to the educational environment plan, activities carried out in the Catalan language will be contracted, with the exception of activities organized from foreign languages (English or German)”, sees the plan of the institute in regard to the personnel of this type of activity.

Using Catalan in the family nucleus

The AEB, an organization that has spoken out on numerous occasions in favor of bilingualism in Catalan schools, has lamented that extracurricular activities can be found in Catalonia “in English, Chinese, Arabic, but…. Oh, if you use Spanish!!”.

This case is preceded by previous controversies in other centers, such as the one that was announced just a few days ago at the Pere Viver school in Terrassa (Barcelona), which, in its linguistic project, urges teachers to use “regularly” Catalan in communications with families. It is made clear that the meetings will always be in Catalan, although at the end some time will be dedicated to those families who have not been able to understand some concept.

A “powerful, serious and stable” government. This is how Carlos Mazón defined this Tuesday who will be the next Coalition Executive of the Popular Party and Vox in the Valencian Generalitat. The popular baron prepares an organization chart with a maximum of 10 ministers, two less than the Botanic, including the Presidency, of which, presumably, eight would be occupied by people appointed by the popular and two by the ultra-conservatives, with the unknown whether Vox will have a vice presidency. That is the sequence that is extracted from the “proportional” distribution to the results obtained that appears in the “principle of agreement” document signed after the meeting of just over two hours held in the Valencian Parliament. The full paper has not been made public..

The two formations have agreed to create working groups to form within a period of about a week what will be the joint program for the legislature and the management structure, as explained by Mazón in an appearance before the media in the autonomous Parliament, after finishing the round of contacts with the political groups. Gone are the intentions to govern alone expressed by Mazón in the electoral campaign and the “red lines” with Vox. “The possibilities of having a majority government when you have absolute are absolute, when you have relative possibilities they are relative,” he argued to the popular baron to justify himself.

The agreement announced in the morning surprised by its haste. Nobody expected the dialogue to take shape when there are still more than 10 days left for the constitution of the regional Parliament and the investiture could be extended even after July 23, the day of the general elections, if the PP believed it was convenient for the interests of its leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Genoa had been speculating for days about the right moment to face an inevitable agreement, because Mazón, with 40 seats, needed the support of the 13 Vox deputies to be president. The regulations of the Cortes even allowed voting to be extended until September before being forced to call new elections.

However, the veto expressed on Monday by the national spokesman of the PP, Borja Sémper, to the figure of Carlos Flores Juberías, Vox candidate and sentenced in 2002 to one year in prison for psychological abuse and harassment of his ex-wife, has precipitated the events. It is not formally recognized, but the outcome has been influenced by the timing of the preparation of Vox's candidacies for the Congress of Deputies.

We assume the responsibility of forming a government and setting up a Consell in the Generalitat Valenciana that responds to the citizen mandate and the expectations of the citizens of the Valencian Community. pic.twitter.com/H9VLvaYli2

– Carlos Mazón (@CarlosMazon40) June 13, 2023

Next Monday the deadline for presenting the lists ends, and it would not have made sense for Santiago Abascal to sacrifice the one who everyone pointed to as a possible vice president of the Generalitat without having written guarantees that Vox will access the regional Executive and participate in the management public. Vox has dropped its bishop, looking for a “dignified” exit as head of the list for Valencia, but the agreement has been secured before the elections. In other words, it manages to demonstrate that it has influence over political decisions and enters governments, thus sending the message that it aspires to repeat that scheme in the governability of Spain..

The departure of Flores also has a double reading of the future in the ranks of the PP. It not only exempts the conservatives from swallowing the toad of putting a person convicted of mistreatment in the Generalitat. It also sends to Madrid the cadre with the apparent highest political profile of Vox's regional candidacy. High popular officials did not hide the fact that Flores could become a problem if he assumed a leading role in the new Consell de Mazón as vice president. It will be necessary to see how Vox manages to sustain its own speech in the Executive so as not to suffer the hug of the bear, as in Madrid or Andalusia, and lose support in the 2027 call.

It remains to know the distribution of areas. Mazón insisted this Tuesday that it will be the last chapter of the pact. First the programmatic content will be negotiated, to later put together the architecture of the Consell. The five points of agreed joint political commitments hardly allow us to guess big measures. It is known that Mazón wants to make its debut by lowering taxes and even maximizing some such as inheritances and donations, in addition to repealing the tourist tax law approved by the Botànic. Flores also advanced that the intention is to give citizens “freedom of choice” in educational matters, which seems to point to a recovery of the two linguistic lines (Spanish and Valencian) compared to the multilingual model deployed by the Botànic, in addition to returning to the single district system in schools.

There is speculation about a possible transfer to Vox of the Agriculture and Social Policies portfolios. Some media published that Vox would also assume the Ministry of Education, the second with the largest budget in the Generalitat after Health. Sources close to the next regional president denied that there had been a decision made on the distribution of portfolios. Official sources from Vox also distanced themselves, alleging that the phase is now work on government content.. The truth is that Education, due to its relationship with teacher unions, the question of its own language and the balance between the public, subsidized and private system, is one of the most socially sensitive areas.. It would be strange if Mazón gave up command of the department without controlling the changes and risked possible political fires.. Vox has defended highly controversial educational initiatives, such as the parental PIN.

In public, Mazón maintained that the signed agreement is not yet “publishable” or “public” and maintained that the point of the negotiation is not “in the people” yet. “The distribution of chairs is the last thing”, slipped. “We are going to have the best and the best. We are going to govern for the whole world, at the height of responsibility, without prejudice and without imposed ideologies.”.

Even so, Vox numbers have begun to circulate, from Llanos Masó or José María Llanos, for the presidency of the Cortes, to José Luis Aguirre or the bullfighter Vicente Barrera for Agriculture. Also the until now parliamentary spokesperson for Vox, Ana Vega, is shaping up for a relevant position. In the same way, Miriam Turiel has entered the council pools.

The announcement of the Valencian agreement broke into the national board, where the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has spent weeks balancing the relationship with Vox, increasingly widespread in the town halls. The one in the Valencian Community has been the first closed in an autonomy. Mazón assured in his appearance that it has been a “shared process” with Feijóo and avoided making transfers to the policy of pacts of his party in the central government. “I was born in the Mediterranean,” he said on several occasions. “Feijóo has conveyed his congratulations to me for having been able to give a principle of agreement and a stable turn to the Valencian Community,” he explained..