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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
