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WhatDoTheyKnow, Parliament and copyright

Monday, October 13th, 2008 by Francis Irving

The Register has an article today Parliament’s take on Freedom of Information which describes an FOI request I made using WhatDoTheyKnow, and the House of Commons’ refusal to respond to it because the response would be automatically republished.

Hopefully the House will choose to waive copyright on the document, and send it soon – I still haven’t seen a good reason why they could or should not.

(Also, I haven’t changed my name to Francis Stirling, hopefully The Register will correct it soon!)

This entry was posted on Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 2:37pm and is filed under WhatDoTheyKnow. Follow responses to this entry (RSS2 feed). Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “WhatDoTheyKnow, Parliament and copyright”

  1. Daniel Johnston Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 3:27pm

    Interestingly, ex-diplomat Craig Murray has a list of FoI documents on his site that he was apparently forced to take down because of legal action over copyright – http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/documents/docs.html

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