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Inyaki wrote:The session musicians and engineers are paid by sessions not the artists.
Also, rights (composers' rights ) and sales of records are different things.

Bob Andy was the singer, the artist on the cover and the composer ( or at least co-composer alongside the musicians and writer ), and he is totally right....is that simple.

I'm pretty sure singers can be payed by session as well, and I guarantee it's not that simple.

The copyright situation on Jamaica had never been simple. And only recently had the powers that be started to get their act (and the legality of it all) together. How many tunes have we got in our boxes with adapted as the songwriter when the original sourced song will have the details on the label? I've even got a copy of Caught You In A Lie with the composer listed as Louisa Marks instead of Robert Parker. And that's on a UK label! Island records on the red and white label never had the composer and publishing details on them unless it seems, that the single charted i.e. The Skatalites - Guns Of Navarone. The situation was clearly chaotic and Bob Andy vs Studio One will hopefully add some clarity. Alton Ellis said in an interview with Black Echoes magazine that after the hundreds of versions of Still In Love With You were recorded. Way over a million copies were sold (including Uptown Top Ranking) and he received a total of... one thousand pounds. He was lucky to get that.