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Collective-management

  • Kenya's High Court has barred MCSK from collecting royalties. Who pays musicians now?

    Kenya's High Court has barred the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) from collecting royalties while it appeals the regulator's refusal to license it, weeks after another society, KAMP, had its licence suspended, and days before the regulator dissolved KAMP's board. Collection now runs through one licensed society, and some of the money is frozen. A draft copyright bill would change how a suspension like this works.

    Artist rightsvia Kenya Copyright Board (copy hosted by EIFL)

  • Sweden's STIM makes AI licensing opt-in, one work at a time

    STIM's members have voted to create a separate AI rights category, in force from 1 Jun 2026. No work goes into an AI licence unless its creator switches it on, work by work; everything else stays monitored but excluded. It is the most consent-heavy model we have seen a collecting society adopt, and its weak spot is scale, not principle.

    AIvia STIM

  • Indonesia rewrites how music royalties are split, and says live streams can owe them too

    Indonesia's national royalty body, LMKN, has issued 2026 distribution rules that pay first on reported usage data and give a capped fallback allocation to members whose songs never show up in the logs. The same body says music in TikTok and YouTube live streams can owe royalties. For songwriters, getting your songs into the data now decides more of what you're paid.

    Industryvia LMKN

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