Editing Legal deposit (section)

===Ireland===
One copy of each book and periodical published in the Republic of Ireland must be deposited with the [[National Library of Ireland]] (NLI), the [[British Library]], and each of the seven university libraries: [[Trinity College Library, Dublin|Trinity College Library]] and those of the [[University of Limerick]] (UL), [[Dublin City University]] (DCU), and the four constituent universities of the [[National University of Ireland]] (NUI).<ref name="irishstatutebook2000" /><ref name="tcd"/> Four other British libraries can submit a written request for a copy within a year: the [[Bodleian Library]], [[Cambridge University Library]], the [[National Library of Scotland]] and the [[National Library of Wales]].<ref name="irishstatutebook2000">{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2000/act/28/section/198/enacted/en/html|title=Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000, Section 198|date=10 July 2000|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="tcd"/> Irish publishers have complained at the obligation to supply up to 13 free copies of works which may have a small print run.<ref name="Simpson1996"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2000-04-04/3/ |title=Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 1999 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) |author=((Select Committee on Enterprise and Small Business)) |date=4 April 2000 |work=Committee Debates|publisher=Oireachtas|no-pp=y|pages=Section 187; Amendment No. 121a |access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2000062200022#N954 |title=Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 1999 [ Seanad ] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage |last=Owen |first=Nora |author-link=Nora Owen |date=22 June 2000|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|publisher=Oireachtas|pages=Vol.521 No.6 p.22 cc.1520–1 |no-pp=y|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> Trinity College Library incurs expense, partly reimbursed from public funds, in receiving UK books and acting as a clearing house for Irish books sent for UK deposit.<ref name="Simpson1996">{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anglo-irish-double-whammy/99888.article|title=Anglo-Irish 'double whammy'|last=Simpson|first=William|date=19 July 1996|work=Times Higher Education|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref>

The [[Irish Free State]] in 1922 inherited the UK's [[Copyright Act 1911]] ([[1 & 2 Geo. 5]]. c. 46), which made Trinity College Library and those in the UK the legal deposits for UK-published books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1911/act/46/section/15/enacted/en/html|title=Copyright Act, 1911, Section 15|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> When the Free State's first copyright law was debated in 1927, it was decided to retain Trinity College Library rather than the NLI as the deposit for UK books, on the grounds of continuity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1926120800024#N63|title=INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY (PROTECTION) BILL, 1926—THIRD STAGE (RESUMED).|date=8 December 1926 |quote=When we get a single copy of every book published in England we are going to continue what used to be the practice, and that book shall go to Trinity College, Dublin, on the grounds that the collection is already there, and that if it were diverted from Trinity College to, say, the National Library, you would only have a collection up to a certain period in Trinity College, and beyond that period in the National Library.|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|pages=Vol. 17 c.800|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="dail1963021400009">{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1963021400009#N482|title=Committee on Finance. — Copyright Bill, 1962—Committee Stage|date=14 February 1963|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|pages=Vol.199 No.11 p.9 cc.1475–6|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> It retains the status {{as of|2016|lc=y}}.<ref name="tcd">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/library/collection-man/legal-deposit.php|title=Legal Deposit|work=The Library of Trinity College Dublin|date=10 June 2016|publisher=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> Originally the 1927 bill proposed only to add the NLI as a deposit for Free State publishing; [[Committee stage|in committee]] the three then constituent colleges of the NUI were added as well, while status of the lesser British libraries was reduced from automatic to by request.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1927012500035|title=ORDERS OF THE DAY. - INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY (PROTECTION) BILL, 1926—REPORT (Resumed— Amendment 8).|date=25 January 1927|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|pages=Vol. 18 No. 1|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1927/act/16/section/178/enacted/en/html#sec178|title=Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927, Section 178|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> [[St Patrick's College, Maynooth|St Patrick's College]] (predecessor of [[NUI Maynooth]]) was added in 1963,<ref name="dail1963021400009"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1963/act/10/section/56/enacted/en/html#sec56|title=Copyright Act, 1963, Section 56|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> and UL and DCU in 1989 on promotion to university status.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1989/act/14/section/7/enacted/en/html#sec7|title=University of Limerick Act, 1989, Section 7|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1989/act/15/section/6/enacted/en/html#sec6|title=Dublin City University Act, 1989, Section 6|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref> In 2000, the deposit requirement was extended to [[e-publishing]], and libraries could request digital copies in addition to hard copies.<ref name="irishstatutebook2000"/> In 2017, the NLI began a consultation on extending legal deposit to [[born-digital]] resources, which it had begun [[digital preservation|preserving]] in 2011 from voluntary deposits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ahrrga.gov.ie/app/uploads/2017/04/consultation-on-the-legal-deposit-of-published-digital-material-in-the-21st-century-in-the-context-of-copyright-legislation.pdf |title=Consultation on the Legal Deposit of published digital material in the 21st century in the context of Copyright legislation |date=24 April 2017 |publisher=[[Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs]] |location=Dublin |access-date=19 May 2017}}</ref>