It collects royalties on behalf of authors, composers, arrangers, and publishers of music.
In 2015, a number of artists including Elijah Wainaina Mira, Francis Jumba, and Carolyne Wanjiru Ndiba filed suit against MCSK, the Copyright Board, and other organizations claiming the right to collect royalties for their own works.
[1] The Kenya Copyright Board has also formally complained that MCSK's disbursement of royalties disbursed to artists has been decreasing for several years, falling to 58.9% of collected revenue, well below the 70% standard established by the Kenya Copyright Board.
[2] The MCSK has had problems from the Copyright Board in the past; in 2011 it was "deregistered" as an official collecting society.
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