ENTITY · MUSIC ORGANISATION OR INSTITUTION
Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS)
Well supported
Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS), a non-profit collective-management organisation incorporated in 2006 and operational from 2007, licenses and collects neighbouring (sound-recording) rights royalties for record producers and performers. It reports having distributed roughly half a billion Jamaican dollars over two decades, and features in debates about whether local rights administration keeps pace with streaming.
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- Well supported
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- JAMMS (jammsonline.com); Jamaica Information Service; World Music Views.
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Collecting the money at home: neighbouring rights and JAMMS
One side
Royalties recovered for creators
The other
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 →Streaming's promise for dancehall: global reach or a pennies-per-stream squeeze?
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Global reach & direct distribution
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Pennies-per-stream payouts
Two documented positions on streaming's effect on reggae and dancehall, stated neutrally: supporters credit on-demand platforms with giving Jamaican artists direct, borderless distribution and new discovery paths; critics point to fractional per-stream payouts and 2024 minimum-stream royalty thresholds that leave many acts earning little. No verdict.
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