About the Scottish Parliament

The following guidance applies to downloading and sharing clips from Scottish Parliament TV.

This guidance applies to all users and is in line with the Parliament’s:

• copyright policy and copyright licence

• policy for MSPs on the use of parliamentary resources

• policy for MSPs on the use of the Corporate Identity

Use

1. You may use the material to make a fair and accurate report of parliamentary proceedings.

2. You must not use the material for any of these purposes:

(a) party political purposes

(b) advertising endorsement

(c) in a way that suggests any official status or that the SPCB endorses you or your use of the information.

Content

The following guidance applies to the clips themselves and not to any accompanying content that you use in your social media posts (wording of tweets, etc), which are not covered by the relevant policies.

3. You may include in the clip a reference to the Member’s name, their party affiliation and a description of their electoral status alongside their name.

4. You may not do any of the following:

(a) edit, add to, distort, or digitally manipulate the material in any way, except to add accessibility features such as captions. Captions should not be automatically generated. If added using an editing tool, they should be verbatim as far as possible and/or copied from the Official Report if available

(b) add commentary

(c) add party logos or political campaign emblems (use of party colours to frame the clips is accepted)

(d) add music or sound effects

(e) include the Scottish Parliament Corporate Identity without prior approval.

5. To comply with the copyright policy you should always attribute the Parliament as content owner.  The following wording is suggested: "Contains information licensed under the Scottish Parliament Copyright Licence".

6. If you become aware that you have breached any of the conditions in this guidance, you must immediately remove the material from the platform on which the breach occurs.

Illustrative examples on social media

✅ Party colours are allowed

❌ Party logo is not permitted

✅ Member's name, their party affiliation and a description of their electoral status alongside their name is allowed

❌ Parliament logo is not permitted

✅ Party colour border is allowed

❌ Added commentary beyond subtitles in the clips themselves is not allowed.

(Commentary in a tweet, Instagram caption, etc is allowed.)

✅ Use of SPCB copyright notice is permitted on end cards.

❌ Use of party logos or slogans is not permitted on end cards.