KECOBO stops MCSK from collecting music royalties

Kenya Copyright Board (KeCoBo) has stopped MCSK from collecting music roaylties.

Four months after the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) applied for a  new license for operations in 2023, KECOBO has declined the CMO’s request application.

In a letter adresses to MCSK’s chief executive officer, Ezekiel Mutua, they explained the reasons for the decline, “As per my last communication addressed to your advocates, I wish to inform you that your license application was incomplete for non-payment of requisite feefor 2021 and 2023 licensing period and failure to provide the followingdocuments required by the Copyright regulations 2020:

a. List of beneficiaries and amounts paid in royalties for 2022

b. Audited Financial Statements for period up to June 2022

c. Failure to provide an authenticated list of members,” it stated.

Thereafter ordering MCSK not to collect music royalties forthwith, This is therefore to inform you that your application has failed to meet the statutory standard for the above reasons set out. You are directed to cease collection forthwith.”