On 2009-05-20 11:32:09 +0100, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk said:
2009/5/20 Peter Coombe thewub.wiki@googlemail.com:
Good find, I added my name too. But see the comment left by John Sheridan - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/CommentView/guid/bc8d9078-135a-4a75...
It
looks like some company called Dods owns the copyright on those photos.
/Dods/ are publishers of Dods' Parliamentary Compaion, the standard reference work on, well, Parliament. I'm guessing that they take these pictures for their book, and license them back to the parliamentary website (etc).
That's absolutely terrible in itself in my opinion.
It's ridiculous the Houses of Parliament lack their own, official photographs of their members. I mean the US Senate and Congress take them. And there's official photographs of most US federal officeholders.
I think if OPSI don't address this in that thread we could bring it up with our MPs/Houses of Parliament authorities (although I expect they're pretty busy atm!).