Editing Legal deposit (section)

===United Kingdom===
{{see also|Media of the United Kingdom}}
There are six legal deposit libraries under UK law: the [[British Library]], the [[National Library of Scotland]], the [[National Library of Wales]], the [[Bodleian Library]] at [[Oxford University]], [[Cambridge University Library]], and [[Trinity College Dublin Library]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction to legal deposit|url=http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/legaldeposit/introduction/|publisher=British Library|access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref> Although the [[Irish Free State]] left the UK in 1922, Trinity College remains a UK deposit library, and the UK libraries reciprocally retain deposit rights for Irish publications.<ref name="dail1963021400009"/><ref name="tcd"/>

Legal deposit in the United Kingdom traces its origins to an agreement between [[Sir Thomas Bodley]] and the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Stationers' Company]] that copies of new books would be added to the Bodleian collection.<ref name="muir2005">{{cite thesis|title=Loughborough University Institutional Repository|work=lboro.ac.uk|date=January 2005 |hdl = 2134/8469|type=thesis |last1=Muir |first1=Adrienne }}</ref> The [[Statute of Anne]] (1710) formalised the practice by extending it, in England, to the Royal Library (now the British Library), Cambridge University, and the library of [[Sion College]], and, in Scotland, to the [[Advocates Library]] and the universities of [[University of St Andrews|St. Andrews]], [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]], [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] and [[University of Aberdeen|Aberdeen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne5.html|title=History of Copyright: Statute of Anne, 1710|work=copyrighthistory.com}}</ref> After the [[Acts of Union 1800|Union with Ireland]], an 1801 act extended deposit to Trinity College and [[King's Inns]] in Dublin.<ref name="Cosgrave1967">{{cite journal |last1=Cosgrave |first1=Liam |author1-link=Liam Cosgrave |title=The King's Inns |journal=Dublin Historical Record |date=1967 |volume=21 |issue=2 |page=51 |url=https://www.kingsinns.ie/cmsfiles/news/Dublin-Historical-Record-copy.pdf#page=4 |jstor=30104368 |issn=0012-6861}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/statutesatlarge43britgoog|title=The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great ...|date=July 2, 1801|publisher=Printed by J. Bentham|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> From 1814, publishers supplied institutions upon request rather than automatically.<ref name="Cosgrave1967"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101071954430&seq=861|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. v. 54 (1814).|website=HathiTrust|series=Laws, etc |pages=63 v |last1=Rickards |first1=George K. }}</ref> In 1836, Sion College, King's Inns, and the Scottish universities were removed from the list, compensated with a book stipend equal to the average annual value of books deposited over the preceding three years.<ref name="Cosgrave1967"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112203454196&seq=680|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. v. 76= 6/7 Will IV.|website=HathiTrust| series=Laws, etc | pages=63 v | last1=Rickards | first1=George K. }}</ref> The [[Copyright Act 1911]] ([[1 & 2 Geo. 5]]. c. 46) gave limited deposit rights to the National Library of Wales, with full rights coming in 1987. The Advocates Library's right was transferred to the National Library of Scotland upon its 1925 creation.

The [[Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003]]<ref name="ukdeposit">[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030028_en_1 The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203183316/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030028_en_1 |date=2010-02-03 }}, applies to the United Kingdom.</ref> restates section 15 of the [[Copyright Act 1911]] ([[1 & 2 Geo. 5]]. c. 46),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/46|title=Copyright Act 1911|work=legislation.gov.uk}}</ref> that one copy of every book (which includes pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, sheet music and maps) published there must be sent to the British Library. The other five deposit libraries are entitled to request a free copy within one year of publication, a process which they normally coordinate jointly through [[Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries]]. The 2003 Act sets out provisions for the deposit of non-print works. This legislation was updated with the introduction of secondary legislation, The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013,<ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/777/pdfs/uksi_20130777_en.pdf ''The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013''], SI 2013/77</ref> which make provision for the legal deposit of works published online or offline in formats other than print, such as websites, blogs, e-journals and CD-ROMs. Social media content is included in the legislation, but not private message sent via social media platforms. Pure video streaming websites are also excluded from the legislation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Non-print legal deposit: FAQs|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/search/non-print_legal_deposit.html|publisher=British Library|access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref>

In the United Kingdom, the purpose of legal deposits is to "preserve knowledge and information for future generations and 'maintain the national published archive of the British Isles'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/digital-legal-deposit/uk.php|title=Digital legal deposit: United Kingdom|date=2018|website=Library of Congress|access-date=October 13, 2019}}</ref> The purpose and intent for preserving publications for national posterity applied to other countries as well, including the United States. According to Thomas Lidman, "[l]egal deposit is the foundation on which to build national library services, it helps to ensure that the country's intellectual heritage will be preserved and available for study".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lidman|first=Thomas|date=2012|title=Libraries and archives: A comparative study|journal=Chandos Information Professional Series|pages=53–68|jstor=}}</ref>