11. Any freelancer or BHG individual or group may only collect on a bounty which that person or group has issued, sponsored or funded (fully or partly) so long as it is open to others to collect. All non-generic factions may sponsor internal bounties that are only open to members of the playerorNPC faction.
How about changing that to and. Being part of NPC faction should make you valid for bounty claim, which was posted by official/unofficial faction of your affiliation.
This would disallow totally-internal bounties and open up the chance for indies to be part of it.