Changes to BBC Parliament & Political Programming

Apologies if there's a better thread for this, but it appears that Parliamentary broadcasting rules have been quietly relaxed, and broadcasters may now use footage in satire programmes - The Mash Report already has.
https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2019/11/08/44723/commons_footage_can_now_be_used_in_satire

That explains why there was footage of the new Speaker being dragged to his chair on tonight’s HIGNFY.

A change that was long overdue... if anything, shouldn't have ever been law anyway.

The article actually says that this isn’t a new law, it’s just the BBC realising there was a loophole in changes to the law made five years ago!

Maybe someone will tell John Oliver 😀

It's not a change to the Parliamentary TV legislation, it's a change to UK Fair Dealing legislation. (Fair Dealing allows you to use material without the copyright owner's permission)

Apparently John Oliver says he gets through the loophole by including some odd factual information.

Footage of Parliament has been removed from the UK version of a few episodes

Yes in fact they've made different versions of the programme for the UK because they can't show the footage.

Like this which British viewers saw instead of an item on Brexit

There's another one where he reads Yelp reviews

What an utterly nonsensical, illiberal, and even vaguely repressive policy.

That may be in the US. Pretty recent versions of the show broadcast in the UK have had replacement edits.