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System for paying musicians to go digital

Local artistes will enjoy better earnings once the government implements new measures of paying royalties.

Last year, social media was awash with complaints by artistes that they had been short-changed by the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK), when they each received a paltry Sh2,530 in royalties.

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