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

On 31 Dec 2004, at 14:06, Rob Myers wrote:
> Noncommercial-NoDerivs explicitly reserves your performing, recording 
> and collecting rights.

OK.  Thanks.  So the CC licence has a clause which allows me to licence 
commercial use via a collecting agency.  The problem, then, is that the 
collecting agency agreements don't have a corresponding clause allowing 
me to licence non-commercial use via CC.  I suppose I need to ask 
someone at PRS whether they can change this or whether I need to 
terminate my membership in order to licence non-commercial use myself.

> I think CC are talking to the rights agencies at the moment

Ah.  Excellent. I'll keep watching this space then...

> Since the BBC is a public-service non-profit organisation I think it 
> would be OK.

I guess the phrase "non-profit" is the key there.  No more BBC 
royalties then if I go CC NonCommercial, but commercial radio will 
continue to pay (via inadequately sporadic PRS returns) Paul McCartney 
and Elton John royalties on my works.  Oh well. :-)

Happy New Year.

Tim.