High court: MCSK allowed to collect royalties without Kecobo licence
The Copyright Tribunal issued a temporary injunction barring the Kecobo from preventing the MCSK from collecting and distributing royalties, pending the outcome of a legal appeal.
The long-running legal tug-of-war between the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) and the Kenya Copyright Board (Kecobo) has taken yet another twist.
Just a week after the Copyright Tribunal lifted an order that had shielded MCSK from Kecobo’s enforcement actions, the Lodwar High Court has now granted the music body temporary permission to continue collecting and distributing royalties even without a valid operating license from the regulator.
