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Reggae music publishing
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Reggae music publishing is the rights and royalty infrastructure behind songs, riddims and catalogues - who owns a composition versus a specific recording of it - and is frequently at the center of disputes over songwriter and producer credit that this atlas tries to document carefully rather than assume.
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Collecting the money at home: neighbouring rights and JAMMS
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Royalties recovered for creators
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Gaps and unmet expectations
A neutral account of debate over local rights administration: JAMMS reports recovering substantial neighbouring-rights royalties for producers and performers over two decades; some artists question how much value reaches them and note gaps, including the absence of a statutory local performance right for performers.
Read the argument →Who owns a riddim?
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Shared version culture
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Rights accounting
Riddim culture makes credit complicated: producers, musicians, studios, writers, deejays and later compilers may all shape a rhythm's public identity.
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