Sorry to spoil the fun, but I think I will have to correct you here.
We got a donation of the government a few years back of all
/ministers/ and state secretaries, but not of members of parliament.
Nowadays, all government material is usually published CC-zero, so
also new photos are free. However, Parliament runs its own business,
including licensing policy, and they have not release anything yet
(although mainly because they do not /have/ the rights).
Lodewijk (WMNL)
2011/2/4 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>om>:
I don't know about the UK, but I know that the
Dutch chapter secured a
content donation from their parliament of the official portraits of the
whole government as a job lot. That might be easier than trying to get them
one by one. I also heard that the German chapter was going to try and get
photos of all candidates in the lead up to their next elections.
Amusingly, I tried to get the Federal Parliament of Australia (via the
Australian parliamentary library) to donate their official portraits of the
government along the lines of the dutch model. The request went up the food
chain to some anonymous bureaucrat in the parliamet from whence the response
came back down that, No, we could not release the official portraits under a
cc-by-sa license as that would encourage the usage of those photos to
satirize the politicians.
A more ludicrous reason why a free-license can't be used I have yet to hear!
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates,
etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ...
- d.
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