Joining ECCO is a critical step in your career in music. By joining ECCO you can begin to register your songs, collect performance royalties and take advantage of many exclusive career benefits. There is a one time, nominal processing fee of EC$150 to apply for ECCO Writer or Performer Membership and EC$450 as a Publisher or Producer Membership,  there are no annual dues. This fee is non-refundable.

Click one of the buttons below to start filling out the online application. We look forward to welcoming you to the ECCO family.

Before you begin, please have the following information in hand:

Writer:
·    Your Social Security Number
·    Information about a work you wrote or co-wrote (e.g. title, name of the performer or artist, date it was released or performed)

To become an ECCO writer member, you must have written or co-written a musical composition or a song that has been:
·    commercially recorded (CD, record, tape, mp3, etc.);
·    or, performed publicly in any venue licensed by ECCO (club, live concert, symphonic concert or recital venue, college or university, etc.);
·    or, performed in any audio visual or electronic medium (film, television, radio, Internet, cable, pay-per-view, etc.);
·    or, published and available for sale or rental.



To become an ECCO publisher member, you must:
·    Let us know whether you are joining as an individually owned publishing company; a partnership or joint venture, or a corporation;
·    verify that your company is regularly engaged in the music publishing business, and has assumed the financial risk involved in the normal publication of musical works, or that you publish works which are publicly performed regularly by ECCO’s licenses.
You must also confirm that one of the works in your publishing catalog has been:
·    commercially recorded (CD, record, tape, etc.);
·    or, performed publicly in any venue licensable by ECCO (club, live concert, symphonic concert or recital venue, college or university, etc.);
·    or, performed in any audio visual or electronic medium (film, television, radio, Internet, cable, pay-per-view, etc.);
·    or, published and available for sale or rental.

Click join to begin the online process.