Office of Public Sector Information

Posted by: Joe Anderson

Public Sector Information Holder: UK Parliament

Information Asset: Photographs of Lords and MPs

The problem

Wikipedia can't use pictures the British Parliament has of its members as they are not licensed under a free licence (one which allows them to copied, modified, and redistributed, even commercially).

My ideal solution

I would like Parliament to license its photographs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/), Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/) or Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

What I would do

Upload photographs to Wikipedia, or similar sites, and include them in the relevant pages.