Submitted on Monday 11th June 2018
Rejected on Monday 18th June 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
UK Parliamentary Footage Law Licence: Repeal Broadcast Regulation
A condition to broadcast Parliamentary proceedings is that "no extracts of Parliamentary proceedings may be used in any light entertainment programme or in a programme of political satire". Parliament should repeal this condition in the name of transparency and encouragement of freedom of the press.
This was recently highlighted by several shows including, most notably, 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' (HBO).
This prevents all satirical shows, one example of many being 'Have I Got News For You', broadcasting Parliamentary proceedings in the UK.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/222154
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