Copyright Society of Ghana
Ghana's first collecting society, founded 1986, its music rights role superseded by GHAMRO in 2011.
- Based in
- Ghana
- Founded
- 1986
The Copyright Society of Ghana (COSGA) was Ghana’s first collecting society, founded in 1986 to administer copyright and collect royalties for creative works broadly. It was managed via the Ghana Copyright Office rather than operating independently, and faced repeated allegations of mismanagement; an attempt to monitor CD production through stickers also failed.
Ghana’s Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) ended COSGA’s monopoly and created new copyright management organisations. The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) took over COSGA’s music rights administration in 2011. COSGA is defunct; its exact dissolution date is not established.
