Performing and Audio-Visual Rights Society of Kenya
Kenyan collective management organisation licensed by KECOBO to collect and distribute music and audiovisual royalties, amid a contested multi-year CMO licensing dispute.
- Based in
- Kenya
- Website
- pavrisk.or.ke
PAVRISK – the Performing and Audio-Visual Rights Society of Kenya, formerly the Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK) – is a Kenyan collective management organisation (CMO) licensed by the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) under Section 46 of the Copyright Act. It is a non-profit company limited by guarantee, representing composers, authors, publishers, performers, producers of sound recordings and audiovisual creators, and is run by chairman Edward Waigwa and CEO Joseph Njagih.
PAVRISK collects licence fees from users of music and audiovisual content, including broadcasters, public service vehicles, hospitality venues and event organisers, and distributes the resulting royalties to rights holders under gazetted tariffs, with its current schedule covering 2026 to 2028.
Its licence to operate has been contested repeatedly. KECOBO suspended PAVRISK along with rival CMOs MCSK and KAMP in 2023-2024, briefly tried to name PAVRISK sole licensee in June 2024, had that overturned by Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal the following month, and re-licensed PAVRISK under High Court direction in 2025 alongside KAMP. As of the most recent reporting checked for this record, both PAVRISK and KAMP hold valid Kenyan CMO licences; MCSK does not.
