I am not very familiar with the licensing of pewahewa but this one thing is for sure.

A song is owned by several parties;

1. The person who sang owns their voice – called artist.

2. The person who made the beats owns the beats – called composer.

3. The person who writes the lyrics

4. The person who pays the bills for production of the final song (master) – called Record Label

For any song to be legally licensed these people must issue permission in one way or another. To make it easy its organized as Publishing Rights (for the first 2 rights) and Master Rights (for the second two).

So pewahewa would only be legal if they can demonstrate that they have these these rights.

Many artists and producers don’t even know this. This is what is killing the music industry so on 15^th October when you see our education campaign “iCareforMusic” we will be hoping you all can sambaza the message.

I hope that’s clearer.

Kind regards

Bernard

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@Denis,
Yes, you can legitimately buy music online from http://www.pewahewa.com/

It's interesting to note that Eric Wainaina has made available his brilliant latest Album on the same site.

The beauty of it all is that the online shop  has endeavoured to incorporate as many payments options as feasible; making it very convenient to the average consumer.