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["Tama Leaver" <tamaleaver AT gmail.com>]

Hi Jamison,

Forgive me if I'm missing your point, but CCANZ is CC Aotearoa New
Zealand, not CC Australia and New Zealand.  Or were you suggesting
that these two groups should be working in unison to address the
issues of artists using CC while maintaining APRA membership?

Cheers,
Tama

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Jamison Young <jam AT jamyoung.net> wrote:
> No other countries have united CC licenses in the world. Is it healthy for
> the CC ANZ?  APRA have control of admin of rights for both countries author
> rights and sound recordings, yet does that mean that CC ANZ is good idea?
> Can the CC licenses ever  function as intended for an artist that is with
> APRA and also using a CC license? what about the CC BY license?
>
> APRA would have to change the conditions for the artist contract to that of
> ASCAP or BMI for the CC licenses to function as intended. That is not going
> to happen, look at how much cultural funding is dependent on maintaining the
> artist contract the way it is. Look at the information that the copyright
> council provide about CC.
>
> Artists from Australian and New Zealand can join ASCAP in the US, they can't
> join online as they don't have a social security number. Yet they can join
> up with a paper application form, and need to fill in a W8ben form, the
> process is quit simple. i urge artists to transfer to ASCAP.
>
> I ask that CC AU and CC NZ make this information clear on websites.
>
> Hi from on tour
>
> http://www.myspace.com/optoutofapra
>
>
>
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