Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 10:30 pm on 7 April 2010.
Denis MacShane
Labour, Rotherham
10:30,
7 April 2010
A Liberal Democrat asks me to give way. We are in the last dying hours of this Parliament. That party has always stood up for the rich and the privileged against the rights of journalists and trade unionists. I will not give way. If he wants to make another speech, he can do so.
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Alex Butcher
Posted on 8 Apr 2010 3:18 pm (Report this annotation)
Denis MacShane claims to be standing up for the rights of journalists, and yet this Bill, as originally drafted, would have hypocritically allowed big capitalist companies (and political parties) to commercially exploit photographic images found on the Internet without seeking their creators' consent or paying a mutually acceptable fee for such use. What about the photo-journalists?