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Saturday Sep 04

About JACAP

The Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP) is a non profit copyright collecting society that collectively manages performing rights in musical works by administering rights guaranteed by internationally accepted conventions and granted under the Jamaica Copyright Act of 1993. Its members who are composers, authors and music publishers own JACAP. Members of JACAP entrust the rights in the performances and recordings of their music to JACAP, consequently, JACAP is committed to providing a high standard of quality service to its members.

JACAP - Part of an international network of collective management organisations.

JACAP is a Member of CISAC (Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Auteurs et Compositeurs/International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers). CISAC is the oldest international association of authors’ societies and was founded in 1926. Regionally, JACAP is a part of a regional system for royalty collection and distribution through the Caribbean Copyright Link (CCL), which includes The Copyright Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Inc. (COSCAP) of Barbados, the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT), Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO).

Associates include the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY), the first reprographic rights society to be established in the region and the Trinidad and Tobago Reprographic Rights Organization (TTRRO). (“Reprographic rights” refers to photocopying and other commercial exploitation of literary works).

JACAP was established in March 1998 and commenced operations in January 1999 as a national non profit organisation to take over the operations of the local Performing Right Society London (PRS) agency in the collective administration of music copyright in Jamaica. JACAP was the second recognised national collecting society to be established in the English speaking Caribbean.