Legal Deposit Laws

Article 21 of Korea’s Library Law provides for legal deposit of physical materials, and those online materials which have an ISBN or ISSN, within 30 days of publication. The same goes when a revised or enlarged edition of a work is published. Concerning online works, the National Library can request copies, but needs to provide compensation in this case when these are commercial. If there are technological protections preventing the library from using these works, the library can request that the be removed. Further details are set out in presidential decrees. The copyright law allows the national library to make copies of works it receives via legal deposit.

Purpose of the Law is meeting the needs of personality, society, state in editorial production; creating opportunities for affirmation of citizens as authors, regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, gender, opinion, political affiliation, wealth or social origin; ensuring the right to freedom of thought and speech, to free expression of opinions and beliefs; contributing to the national-cultural development of the people through the considerable increase in circulation and volume of editions, by the thematic expansion of book production; raising the level of culture of citizens by ensuring access to editorial production, familiarization with general human values, editing in original or translation of the most valuable works of national and universal literature; establishing relationships with publishers in other countries and concluding international conventions and agreements in the editorial field; increasing the number of national book editions in the languages ​​of wide circulation in order to promote the image of the Republic of Moldova in the world; strengthening and modernizing the technical-material basis of publishing houses, printers and broadcasting broadcasting networks. The libraries are responsable for ensuring the protection of the written heritage of the country, keeping it permanently and preserving it. The legal deposit includes: books, serials, periodicals (magazines, newspapers, almanacs, calendars, newsletters, official acts issued by the central and local public administration authorities, parties, non-governmental organizations, musical scores, albums, stamps, paintings, portraits, engravings, illustrations, illustrated postcards, photographs reproduced in series, atlases, maps, printed plans, posters, teaching globes, material of political, administrative, cultural, artistic, scientific, educational, religious, sports, PhD thesis, multimedia editions, materials printed in Braille and "talking books", sound and video recordings (discs, audio and video cassettes, diafilms, slides, microfilms, microfiches), electronic documents - software data files, published on magnetic, optical or any other medium designed to be processed in the computer (CDs, CDs, DVDs), standards, patents and innovations, technical and operating rules, industrial and company catalogs, advertising and advertising materials, any other documents printed or published by graphic or physico-chemical procedures (lithography, photography, photocopying, phono and videography). Only the National Library, holds the copy of the LD, that can be borrowed by the library users.

Federal law addresses the state policies in regards to legal deposit and its contribution to the Russian national collections and national bibliography. It provides for the preservation of legal deposit copies and their public use. It outlines the types of legal deposit, the categories of its producers and recipients, delivery deadlines and procedures, and penalties for violations.

The Act entitled the National Library Board (NLB) with the function to provide a repository for library materials published in Singapore that are deposited with and preserved by the NLB under what is referred to as legal deposit. Except as otherwise provided by regulations, the publisher of every library material (other than online material) published in Singapore must deposit 2 copies of that library material with the NLB within 4 weeks after the date of first publication. A copy of material in electronic form must be deposited with the NLB in the form and manner determined by the NLB, free of any technological or other restriction on access, within 4 weeks after the date of first publication. The Act provides the NLB with the power to prescribe the library materials which are not required to be deposited with the NLB,  the quality and the format of the copies of library materials required to be deposited, and the manner in which they must be deposited.

The law creates a 'duty to deposit' on behalf of publishers, who must lodge copies of published works with the 5 Legal Deposit libraries in the UK (which includes the British Library, which is governed under its own specific legislation). The Act replaces the previous provision for Legal Deposit, which was covered by the Copyright Act as amended in 1911. It covers print and non-print materials including electronic media and copies of websites and provides limited exceptions to Copyright restrictions in respect of publishing material and making it available for research on and off-site.

Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on implementing Presidential Decree No. PF‑6269 (24 July 2021), “On measures to improve public service infrastructure and expand public access to services.”

Zambian legal deposit legislation at present only covers printed publications, i.e. books, pamphlets, newspapers etc. However this Act is under review, with the view to include the non-print publications. The National Archives of Zambia responsibilities with regards to deposited materials are to preserve and facilitate lawful access to information by the general public which is kept in the special library and access to this storage facility is restricted. Access to deposited materials is granted through Library Assistants, who retrieve materials on behalf of the researchers, therefore access is only on-site and is open to researchers as well as the general public.

Three copies of each printed or published material are to be deposited. One copy each to the National Archives, National Library and Documentation Service, and Bulawayo Public Library. Newspapers, periodicals or other printed publications published at a regular or irregular intervcals, and every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of printing, map, plan, chart or table separately published are covered by legal deposit. Digital materials are not covered by the Act.