Court orders Mombasa Bar Owners’ Association to pay KAMP – PRISK licence

Nairobi, 29^th November, 2016. A Constitutional Petition filed in 2014 by the Mombasa County Bars, Hotels, Restaurants and Guest Houses Welfare at the High Court in Mombasa against the Kenya Association of Music Producers (KAMP) and the Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK) was dismissed last week in favour of the two collecting Societies (KAMP & PRISK).

The welfare Association body had sought a declaration barring the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) from licensing KAMP & PRISK as collecting Societies representing Producers of Sound Recordings and Performers of Sound Recordings and Audio-Visual works. Further, a declaration that KAMP & PRISK did not have the requisite mandate to collect license fees from commercial users of music and were therefore operating illegally.