More Than 10 Good Reasons to Join JAMMS

We have a membership of over 1000 local rights-owners, which includes Established Record Producers, Aspiring Producers, Self-Producing Artistes and Label Owners. This demonstrates the music industry’s confidence in our ability and effectiveness. We do what we say we do. We collect and we distribute. Each new member becomes part of an elite group of Jamaican Record Producers who are able to earn royalties when their music is played.Manufacturer joined the Mechanical & Instrument Association of Lorem to build the first smart devices.

Aside from Record Producers, JAMMS is now providing international representation of Artistes and Musicians rights (excluding the Jamaican territory, until the Copyright Act is amended). Especially new and emerging Artistes and Musicians, join now, and get the protection and royalties due to you.

No application or membership fee. As a not-for-profit organization we do not have shareholders. All revenues collected go to our members as royalties (less administration cost and reserves).

We mean business when we do music business. We carry out licensing activitie on a daily basis to ensure music users are compliant and pay to use our members’ music. We license restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, banks, stores, parties, dances, radio broadcasters, webcasters and even cable operators. By joining JAMMS you become a member of an effective rights administration company…working on your behalf.

We provide royalty payments along with royalty statements twice per year, from income earned in Jamaica. However, payout of royalties from overseas territories will vary from once per year to several times per year, in line with when such payouts reach JAMMS.

We are able to monitor the local airplay of our members’ music around the clock every single day. We use one of the best monitoring technologies in the business. No holidays off, no weekends off, our system works 365 days of each year to ensure when your music is played we know and are able to pay you as accurately as possible when we distribute royalties.

There are over 25 radio stations in Jamaica and virtually all are licensed by JAMMS, including all the big stations. In other words, once your music is getting at least some steady airplay whether on a large or small radio station, you can expect to receive royalties from JAMMS.

We are expanding our reach into new overseas markets, to provide more opportunities for our members to earn more. This means we will be seeking out reciprocal arrangements with countries in Latin America and Africa to complement arrangements we already have with countries in Europe, America and the Caribbean.

We are interested in your well being, not just giving you royalties! Members can now benefit from affordable Life Insurance through JAMMS. Ask how you can enroll – call 876-564-9400.

We facilitate various procedures using online systems. On becoming a member, you can register your music with us via email, receive royalty statements by email, receive royalties directly into your bank account, receive updates directly to your phone etc. All this saves you time and money.

JAMMS is the National ISRC Agency for Jamaica. We still provide free ISRC services for members and non-members. All Jamaican Record Producers need to obtain ‘ISRC Codes’ from JAMMS, once their music is being released digitally.

The operations of JAMMS are executed by its Management with governance and oversight from a Board of Directors and also an International Body. This is supported by established Rules and Business Code of Conduct which must be adhered to. In other words you are in safe hands.

JAMMS is a single powerful and influential voice for Record Producers and the music industry as a whole. We have successfully advocated on behalf of the music industry for important changes to protect or advance the interest of the industry. JAMMS was the powerful and leading activist behind the successful push for copyright in
music to have 95 years of protection, up from the 50 years which it had before.