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[Dr Tim Brookes <t.brookes AT surrey.ac.uk>]

I'm keen to issue some of my works (musical compositions/recordings) 
under an Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike CC licence but have two 
major concerns.  Can someone help to put my mind at rest please...?

Collection Agencies

I'm confused about how, as a member of PRS, MCPS and PPL, I can issue 
any of my work under a CC licence.  In joining each of these collection 
agencies I have assigned the relevant performance and mechanical rights 
for all of my works to that agency.  I therefore no longer have any 
rights left to assign under a CC licence.  It seems to me that I can 
only issue CC licences if eg. PRS changes the terms of my member 
agreement either such that the only rights I have assigned are those 
relating to commercial usage, or such that the rights are not assigned 
but instead are non-exclusively licensed.  My only other alternative 
would be to terminate my membership of all collection agencies.  Have I 
got this correct?

If I terminate all agreements with collection agencies, and issue works 
under CC licences, and subsequently find myself inundated with requests 
from advertisers, broadcasters and film-makers to use my works 
commercially, I will want to re-join the collection agencies (or assign 
my rights to a publisher member) so that they can administer commercial 
licences on my behalf.  If I do this then the collection agencies will 
be likely to take legal action against anyone using my works under the 
terms of the CC licence.  Does this effectively mean that I will not be 
able to join a collection agency (or assign rights to a publisher) if I 
have ever issued works under a CC licence?

BBC Radio

Since it wouldn't result in any financial gain for the BBC, would the 
broadcast of my works on BBC radio be classed as commercial use?  If 
not, then issuing works under a CC licence could lose me significant 
royalty income which I'd quite like to keep hold of.

Many thanks for any comments,

Tim.