Submitted on Tuesday 26th February 2019
Rejected on Monday 4th March 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
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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