Editing Legal deposit (section)

===Germany===
{{see also|Media of Germany}}
In Germany, since 1913 publishing houses bound by a contract with the booksellers' guild, the ''Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels'', were required to send a so-called ''Pflichtexemplar'' of each book in print and stock to the ''Deutsche Bücherei'' in [[Leipzig]]. After World War II, ''Deutsche Bücherei'' kept going in [[East Germany]], while the ''Deutsche Bibliothek'' was founded in [[Frankfurt|Frankfurt am Main]], [[West Germany]]. Legal deposits kept being required strictly by Private Law, organised by the Börsenverein and the German booksellers. Since 1969, the German National Library Law (''Gesetz über die Deutsche Bibliothek'' vom 31. März 1969, <abbr>BGBl. I S. 265</abbr>)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzer.de/gesetz/4517/index.htm|title=Gesetz über die Deutsche Bibliothek (DBiblG)|work=buzer.de}}</ref> required that two copies of each print publication and of some non-print publications be sent to the German National Library in either Frankfurt am Main or [[Leipzig]] (depending on the publisher's location). The act was replaced in 2006 by the German National Library Act, as the ''[[German National Library]]'', or ''Deutsche Nationalbibilothek'', was founded.<ref>''[https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/dnbg/index.html Gesetz über die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNBG)]'' of 22 June 2006 (BGBl. I S. 1338).</ref> Additionally, each [[States of Germany|federal state]] of Germany requires that one or two copies of works published in that state be deposited in the respective state repository.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pflichtexemplar-Bibliotheken |url=http://fachweltdev.sub.uni-hamburg.de/leihverkehrszentrale/pflichtexemplar-bibliotheken.html |website=Stabi Hamburg |access-date=29 January 2019 |language=de}}</ref>