ascap vs sabam

What stops a person outside of the US (I am in fact) from joining ASCAP or BMI
and not their local CS? If they can, what are the implications?

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. Might be implications when applying for cultural funding in some countries if the artist was to join ASCAP. Yet i doubt that an artist could be openly refused funding for this.

Prior to the Buma/Stemra project this project started. http://www.icommons.org/nodes/project-dac .After the Buma project got started this project stopped. Is this project going to start again?

Buma look at everything that in the past that has collected a royalty as being a commercial use, and i can’t see how this could change. My experience from touring the Netherlands is that Buma/stemra is the same as SABAM.