WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP IS AN ISBN REQUIRED there is a name and address Legal Deposit LEGAL DEPOSIT BETWEEN LEGAL DEPOSIT FOR LEGAL DEPOSIT? attached so that a legal State Library of AND COPYRIGHT? There is no need for a deposit receipt can be sent. New South Wales Under the Copyright Act publication to have an identifier No other documentation is Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 WHAT IS LEGAL DEPOSIT? Legal deposit claims 1968, copyright protection like the International Standard required. is granted automatically in Book Number (ISBN) for legal Legal Deposit Unit T 02 9273 1489 Legal deposit is a statutory provision which obliges Publishers should deposit routinely on publication. To ensure [email protected] publishers to deposit copies of their publications in libraries the collection of published Australiana is as complete as Australia from the moment of deposit purposes. ISBNs are National Library Legal Deposit Officer in the region in which they are published. Under the possible, a deposit library may claim, from the publisher, creating a work. Publication is very important for the retail of Australia NSW Parliamentary Library Copyright Act 1968 and various state Acts, a copy of any publications not held in its collection. This is to remind not necessary for copyright to book trade but not essential Parkes Place Parliament House work published in Australia must be deposited with the publishers of the requirements of legal deposit under the subsist in a work except in the for legal deposit. Publishers Canberra ACT 2600 Macquarie Street National Library of Australia and the deposit libraries in your Copyright Act 1968 and other relevant legislations. case of sound and television who wish to apply for an ISBN T 02 6262 1312 Sydney NSW 2000 home state or territory. In New South Wales, Queensland broadcasts and publishers’ should contact ISBN Agency F 02 6273 4492 T 02 9230 2384 and South Australia, legislation also applies to certain WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF LEGAL DEPOSIT? copyright in editions of works. Australia. [email protected] However, library records and www.nla.gov.au/legal-deposit F 02 9230 2640 other libraries and a copy must also be deposited with The National Library and other deposit libraries have an ISBN Agency Australia the legal deposit receipt issued Info.Resources@parliament. these libraries. Legal deposit of the material is the sole obligation to preserve all material lodged with them. Legal Thorpe-Bowker to the publisher by some legal Australian Capital Territory nsw.gov.au responsibility of the publisher. Legal deposit extends not deposit ensures that: Level 1, 607 St Kilda Road only to commercial publishers but also to private individuals, deposit libraries may be used Melbourne Vic. 3004 The ACT does not currently Gift, Legal Deposit and • works of authors and publishers survive for the use clubs, churches, associations, societies and organisations. as evidence of date of issue. PO Box 6509, St Kilda Road have legal deposit legislation. Exchange Officer of future generations The Australian Copyright Central Vic. 8008 Publishers are encouraged University of Sydney WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF LEGAL DEPOSIT? • records for legal deposit publications are available Council is an independent T 03 8517 8349 to lodge a copy of their Library The Acts requiring legal deposit have a number of through Trove (a shared online national bibliographic non-profit organisation which F 03 8517 8368 publications with the ACT University of Sydney common features: database at trove.nla.gov.au) provides information, advice [email protected] Heritage Library for ongoing NSW 2006 and training on copyright www.thorpe.com.au/en-AU/ preservation and access. T 02 9351 2174 Definition of a work • commercial and self-published works receive wide exposure in Australia to authors and products/servident_isbn. ACT Heritage Library F 02 9036 6460 A work can be a book or a periodical (such as a newsletter publishers. shtml PO Box 158 [email protected] or annual report); a newspaper or a piece of sheet music; a • libraries can access and order bibliographic records for Australian Copyright Council Canberra City ACT 2601 map, plan, chart or table; a program, catalogue, brochure or published works REQUIREMENTS OF EACH Northern Territory 245 Chalmers Street T 02 6207 5163 pamphlet. In some states, it also includes material published DEPOSIT LIBRARY • selected titles are included in online indexing databases Redfern NSW 2016 F 02 6207 5835 Legal deposit is required in electronic format such as computer disks, CDs and DVDs. such as APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information copyright.org.au Australia-wide: National act.heritage.library@ under the Publications (Legal Definition of publication Service). Library of Australia act.gov.au Deposit) Act 2004. A copy of www.library.act.gov.au a ‘document’ published in the A work is deemed to have been published if reproductions The National Library’s catalogue and Trove are available Legal deposit with the National Northern Territory must be of the work or edition have been made available (whether at nla.gov.au. Further information about Legal Deposit can Library is required under the New South Wales deposited within two months by sale or otherwise) to the public. be found on the National Library‘s website at nla.gov.au/ Copyright Act 1968, s201. legal-deposit. The Act requires all Australian Legal deposit is required of publication. Best copy under the New South Wales The National Library provides the Cataloguing-in- publishers to deliver a copy of ‘Document’ means any Copyright Act 1879–1952, The deposit copy must be the best complete copy of a Publication (CiP) service free of charge to publishers to ‘library material’ to the National document available to the ss5–7. The Act requires that work as published. For example, if both a hardback and provide a catalogue record for a book before it is published. Library within one month of public including books, paperback edition is published, one copy of the hardback publication. a copy of every ‘book’ first newspapers, magazines, edition must be deposited. Cataloguing in Publication published in New South periodicals, reports, National Library of Australia ‘Library material’ means Wales be lodged within two Second and subsequent editions a book, periodical (e.g. newsletters, calendars, Canberra ACT 2600 months of publication. directories, handbooks, A copy of a second or later edition must be deposited if T 02 6262 1458 newsletter, magazine, annual ‘Book’ is defined in the Act guides, sheet music, maps, there are changes or additions to the preceding edition, F 02 6273 4492 report), newspaper, pamphlet, as any book, newspaper, pamphlets, audiocassettes, such as to text or to illustrations. If a book is reprinted with www.nla.gov.au/cip sheet of letterpress, sheet periodical, pamphlet, leaflet, videocassettes, films, a change to the title or to any part of the content, or it has music, map, plan, chart or music, map, chart or plan multimedia kits, computer a different publisher, it is considered to be a new edition. table. When sending legal deposit materials to the separately published and magnetic tapes, computer National Library, ensure that ‘bound, sewed or stitched optical disks, floppy disks, together’. CDs, CD-ROMs or DVDs. The Act also includes internet Parliamentary Librarian Parliamentary Librarian ‘Publication’ includes every publications, including Parliamentary Library South Australian Parliament book, periodical, newspaper, websites and PDF files. Parliament House Research Library musical score, map, chart, LEGAL Legal Deposit Officer George Street GPO Box 572 plan, picture, photograph, print Northern Territory Library Brisbane Qld 4001 Adelaide SA 5001 and any other printed matter, DEPOSIT GPO Box 42 T 07 3406 7199 T 08 8237 9428 any microfiche or microfilm Darwin NT 0801 F 07 3210 0172 F 08 8212 1797 and a range of other types of T 08 8999 3929 QPL.Acquisitions@ [email protected] publication. IN parliament.qld.gov.au F 08 8999 6920 Tasmania Legal Deposit Officer www.nretas.nt.gov.au/ South Australia State Library of Victoria knowledge-and-history/ Legal deposit is required 328 Swanston Street AUSTRALIA northern-territory-library/ Legal deposit is required under the Tasmanian Melbourne Vic. 3000 publications/publications_ under the South Australian Libraries Act 1984, s22. T 03 8664 7141 (books) legal_deposit Libraries Act 1982, s35 and The Act requires that a ‘book’ T 03 8664 7138 (periodicals) JUNE 2012 Libraries Act Amendment Act published in Tasmania be F 03 9663 1480 Queensland 1989. The Acts require that deposited within one month [email protected] Legal deposit is required ‘material’ published in South of publication. www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/ under the Queensland Australia be deposited within ‘Book’ means any book, plans-policies/legal-deposit- Libraries Act 1988, part 8 one month of publication. periodical, newspaper, victorian-publications s68. The Act requires that a ‘Material’ includes a book, or printed matter, map, copy of ‘material’ published a part or division of a book; plan, music, manuscript, Western Australia in Queensland is deposited a newspaper, magazine, picture, print, motion In May 2012, the Legal within one month of journal, pamphlet, map, picture, sound recording, Deposit Act 2012 was passed. publication with the state and plan, chart, table, printed photographic negative or The Act covers print, audio- parliamentary libraries. music, record, cassette, print, microphotography, visual and digital material, ‘Material’ is defined as film, video or audiotape, videorecording and any other including works published on every part or division of disk or other electronic matter or thing whereby the internet. Sections of the a book or periodical; a item made available to the words, sounds or images are Act will take effect following piece of sheet music, map public, designed to store and recorded or reproduced consultation with stakeholders or chart; also non-print facilitate the reproduction Legal Deposit Officer to develop regulations.