The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organization for Music Rights (ECCO) Inc. is an association of composers, songwriters and music publishers and is the legal entity responsible for administering the performing rights of its members and members of Affiliated Societies within the OECS States.  Through reciprocal agreements with affiliated societies worldwide (including SOCAN in Canada, ASCAP and BMI in the USA), ECCO has control of the world’s music repertoire, that is to say, ECCO is responsible for licensing all public use of music in the Eastern Caribbean, irrespective of which country the songwriter is from.