Legal deposit

Legal deposit is a statutory requirement for publishers to provide copies of published works to designated libraries or other collecting institutions. It preserves a national record of publishing and supports public access to cultural and scholarly material.

National library: A library maintained by a country to collect, preserve, and provide access to its published heritage. National libraries commonly receive and preserve legal-deposit copies.
Stationers' Company: A London guild of printers and booksellers chartered in 1557. Its record-keeping practices helped shape early English book-deposit arrangements.
British Library: The United Kingdom's national library, holding a collection of books, manuscripts, and other materials. It is the principal recipient of legal-deposit publications in the UK.
National bibliography: A systematic record of publications produced in or about a country. Deposit collections provide material for compiling a record of national publishing.
Copyright: A set of legal rights that grants creators control over specified uses of their original works. Legal deposit imposes a delivery duty distinct from copyright ownership and permission.
Copyright Act 1710: The English statute commonly known as the Statute of Anne, establishing a statutory copyright regime. It required copies of registered books to be deposited in specified libraries.
Library and Archives Canada: Canada's national institution for collecting and preserving documentary heritage. Canadian publishers deposit publications with it under federal law.
Cultural heritage preservation: The safeguarding of objects, records, practices, and knowledge valued as cultural inheritance. Legal deposit preserves published works as part of documentary heritage.
Electronic legal deposit: The collection of digital publications under legal-deposit laws. Digital rules extend deposit duties to online and electronic publications.
Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003: A United Kingdom act extending legal deposit to non-print publications through regulations. It provides the legislative basis for UK non-print deposit.

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