17 Ruthven Road,
Building 1
Kingston 10
Jamaica
Phone: +1-876-754 8910
Fax: +1-876-920 9444
E-mail: info@jamcopy.com
Web: www.jamcopy.com
Chief Executive:
General Manager: Carol A. Newman
Chief Executive Phone: +1-876-906-1279
Chief Executive Email: cnewman@jamcopy.com
HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of first distribution: 2005
ORGANISATION
Composition of Board:
Total number of Board Members: 14
How are Board Members elected: Nominations by Member Organisations and by direct appointment
Total number of Author Representatives: 1
Total number of Publisher Representatives: 4
Members:
Total number of Member Associations: 5
Total Publishers' Associations: 1
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations: 4
Total Rights holders represented: 730
Remarks about the members: In addition to 1 Publishers' Association and 4 Creators' Associations, we also include 2 User Associations as a part of our membership.
DATES OF FINANCIAL YEAR
May 1 - April 30
MODEL OF RRO OPERATION
Type of National legislation :
Civil law:
No
Common law:
Yes
Licensing system:
Voluntary Licencing schemes, with potential back-up in Copyright Laws
Mandating rights holders:
A total of 730 rights holders (publishers, writers, visual artists and music composers) as at August 2017.
LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed: All categories of printed works, including newspapers
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): Reprographic and digital uses including course packs
Types of institutions/sectors licensed: Government and tertiary education sectors
Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: All categories of printed works, including newspapers
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): Conversion, reproduction onto paper and in digital form, distribution of paper copies and of digitised works on secure network, storage
Types of institutions/sectors licensed: Tertiary Education
Other Licences
Public Lending Rights: No
DISTRIBUTION
Title-specific distribution:
No
Non title-specific distribution:
No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution:
Yes
Full reporting:
No
Sampling:
Yes
Statistical surveys:
Yes
Objective availability:
Yes
Possibility to be copied:
Yes
AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A: 3
Bilateral agreements type A with: CCC, CLA, KOPINOR
Number of Bilateral agreements type B: 31
Bilateral agreements type B with: ABDR, ACCESS COPYRIGHT, BCOPY, CADRA, CAL, CDR, CEDRO, CEMPRO, CLASS, CLL, COPIBEC, COPYRUS, DALRO, FJOLIS, HKRRLS, IRRO, JAACC, KOPIKEN, KOPIOSTO, KOPJAMALT, MASA, ECCLA (for 6 OECS Member States), OSDEL, ProLitteris, REPROBEL, REPRONIG, TTRRO, ZIMCOPY, BECCLA,COPYGHANA,KORRA, ALCS, LITA,
FINANCIAL DATA
Total amount collected for all licensing:
JMD 62,317,285.00 (+/- EUR 464,510.13)
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing:
JMD 62,317,285.00 (+/- EUR 464,510.13)
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing:
JMD 60,108,322.00 (+/- EUR 448,044.62)
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide:
JMD 2,208,963.00 (+/- EUR 16,465.51)
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders:
JMD 22,074,848.00 (+/- EUR 164,544.88)
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs:
JMD 7,108,405.00 (+/- EUR 52,985.72)
Total amount distributed from all licensing:
JMD 29,183,253.00 (+/- EUR 217,530.60)
The exchange rate of 1 January 2017 was applied, being EUR 1= 134.1570 JMD