Submitted on Wednesday 13th June 2018
Published on Monday 18th June 2018
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 18th December 2018
Signatures: 220
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Parliament ~ UK
Allow use of Parliamentary footage in political satire and light entertainment
Light entertainment and political satire programmes are not currently permitted to show footage from Parliament. This restriction in a democracy seems somewhat backward and should be lifted.
Section 6 of the Licence to use Parliamentary proceedings from the House of Commons for Broadcast dictates that no extracts of Parliamentary proceedings may be used in any light entertainment
programme or in a programme of political satire.
This restriction became apparent to me whilst attempting to watch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. UK viewers were prevented from seeing a segment of his show due to it containing footage taken from Parliament.
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