It's not a problem for an artist to join ASCAP outside the US. All foreign artists have to do is fill in a US tax form and send it in with their application. They are not able to join online as they don't have a social security number.
-I just wanted to make this point to artists in other countries, although its not likely that you are going to be kicked out of a rights organization for using a cc license, being a member of a rights organization outside the US means that there is a license conflict.
-when content is used for community gatherings, if your content is registered with a rights organizations and your using a CC license and your registered with a rights organization outside the US, the rights organizations might make the gathering pay.
John Buckman from magnitune started this node on the icommons site after last years summit.
http://www.icommons.org/nodes/project-dac
basic idea from node: Create an informative Web site explaining the rights and restrictions of each collecting society contract. Let musicians know they have options, and get musicians to lobby societies to change.
I just figure that a lot of questions exist around this topic.
Why are CC leads not spending more time working with organizations that regulate monopolies- pushing for more liberal licensing platforms for artists and changing vote conditions for boards???
