Although paying attention to the law is certainly important, in practice
this is very unlikely to be an issue as you'll find that political parties
are only too willing to say "yes" to having them reproduced. In both 2001
and 2005 there was numerous reuse of such biographical information,
including for commercial purposes (e.g. by the Daily Telegraph on  web pages
that also ran adverts).

Certainly wise to ask for permission - and also you may find people happy to
help provide data in other ways too (I did this for several people when I
was working at the Liberal Democrats),

Mark


On 17 February 2010 09:11, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 February 2010 22:43, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Undoubtedly copying *would* be an infringement of copyright (as would
> > the publication on a website). It might be that they wouldn't sue
> > (given that they are keen to get this publicity out there) but it
> > would be infringement nonetheless (you did ask).
>
> ... and (if you do it in the course of business, which there's been a
> suggestion might be the case) it would be a criminal offence (contrary
> to s.107(2A) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988), but you
> probably guessed that.
>
> --
> Francis Davey
>
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