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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

IANAL, IANCC.

On Wednesday, January 05, 2005, at 10:33AM, Dr Tim Brookes 
<t.brookes AT surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

>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. :-)

I think so. 
Hopefully the BBC will be tempted to play your music more often by this, then 
there will be an outcry from musicians who don't use CC licenses, and the BBC 
will declare that it will pay royalties on NC work anyway to balance this 
:-). 
This is an unusual case, one that I don't think the original US licenses 
cover or considered, but I don't know how the BBC would feel about being 
singled out for special treatment over royalties. I'm not an expert on this 
sort of thing, though.

- Rob.