14 Facts About Legal deposit

Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their publications to a repository, usually a library.

In some countries there is a legal deposit requirement placed on the government, and it is required to send copies of documents to publicly accessible libraries.

Until the late 20th century, legal deposit covered only printed and sometimes audio-visual materials, but in the 21st century, most countries have had to extend their legislation to cover digital documents as well.

Copyright Act 1968 and legal deposit legislation pertaining to each state mandates that publishers of any kind must deposit copies of their publications in the National Library of Australia as well as in the state or territory library in their jurisdiction.

On 17 February 2016, the federal legal deposit provisions were extended to cover electronic publications of all types.

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In Colombia, the law of legal deposit is regulated by Law 44 of 1993, the statutory Decree 460 of March 16 of 1999, and Decree 2150 of 1995.

In Denmark, legal deposit has been required since 1697, and is handled by the Royal Danish Library and by the State and University Library ; two copies must be supplied.

In 1984, the obligation to Legal deposit was expanded to audiovisual materials; responsibility to preserve films was given to the National Audiovisual Institute.

In France, legal deposit was initiated by the Ordonnance de Montpellier of 1537, under which a copy of any published book had to be delivered to the king's library, for conservation purposes.

Legal deposit is extremely developed and concerns not only printed material but multimedia archives and even some web pages.

In 2000, the Legal deposit requirement was extended to e-publishing, and libraries could request digital copies in addition to hard copies.

In Kenya, the legal deposit regulation is covered under the Books and Newspaper Act Cap.

For periodicals, school manuals and audiovisual publications, the legal deposit is 6 copies while for sheet music, atlases and maps the minimum requirement is 3 copies.

In South Africa the Legal Deposit Act, 1997 requires publishers to provide five copies of every book published, if the print run consists of 100 or more copies.