Editing Legal deposit (section)

===Spain===
{{See also|Media of Spain}}
In Spain, the obligation to deposit copies of printed materials has existed since 1619 for the Royal Library of [[El Escorial]] and since 1716 for the Royal Library of Madrid (later the [[National Library of Spain]]).<ref name="Gallent">{{cite book |title=El depósito legal de obras impresas en España; su historia, su reorganización y resultados, 1958-1961. |last=Guastavino Gallent |first=Guillermo |year=1962 |publisher=Dirección General de Archivos y Bibliotecas |location=Madrid |language=es |oclc=6467776}}</ref>{{rp|8}} From this moment, there followed multiple provisions, in the 19th century termed "legal deposit", all with the aim of enforcing compliance.

The decree of 1957 established a solid administrative base for legal deposit in Spain, based on the separation between provincial offices that managed legal deposit at the local level and conservation libraries, such as the National Library. The decree stipulated that printers were responsible for depositing several copies of all published works at the National Library and other public libraries. This legal deposit legislation covered a wide range of materials, including printed materials such as books and magazines, sound recordings, maps, movies, and postcards.<ref name="Gallent" />{{rp|95–97}}

The 1957 decree, though superseded by other decrees in 1971 and 1973, remained almost intact until 2011, when a new legal deposit law was passed on July 29, 2011. Law 23/2011 established, among other things, that the publisher, not the printer, was the primary entity responsible for submitting its materials to legal deposit. It also established procedures for the legal deposit of electronic materials, including online ones.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Government of Spain |year=2011 |title=Ley 23/2011, de 29 de julio, de depósito legal |publication-date= 30 July 2011 |location=Madrid |language=es |pages=86716–86727 |url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2011/07/30/pdfs/BOE-A-2011-13114.pdf |access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref> The number of copies that must be delivered to each library varies between two and four according to the type of material. Through legal deposit, the National Library collects all materials published in Spain. The central libraries for each [[Autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous community]] collect works published in their respective communities, and provincial libraries collect works published in their respective provinces.