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Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP)

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Jamaican collective management organisation for songwriters, composers and music publishers, which licenses the public performance and reproduction of musical works and distributes the royalties to its members. It is the body a Jamaican songwriter joins to be paid when a work is played on radio, in a dance or on a stage, and it sits beside JAMMS, which handles the separate rights in the sound recording.

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JACAP public information; Jamaica Gleaner and Jamaica Observer business coverage; CISAC member listings.

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