Re: Legal Deposit Libraries Act

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

For links to more background on the UK's Legal Deposit Libraries Act see
http://www.alpsp.org/htp_dep.htm

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: Legal Deposit Libraries Act

> There is an opinion piece in the Guardian by Nigel Newton, head 
> of Bloomsbury Publishing, in which Newton excoriates Google for 
> the Google Print for Libraries project.  While Newton says 
> nothing that would be news to members of this list, he makes a 
> reference to the Legal Deposit Libraries Act that is unfamiliar 
> to me:
>
> "And because they [participating libraries] are copyright 
> libraries, publishers are obliged by the Legal Deposit 
> Libraries Act to give one copy of each book to those six 
> copyright libraries for free. No one ever said it could be 
> passed on in electronic form to a third party."
>
> Can anyone shed light on this?  Is the Act a UK thing, 
> American, something besides (Ruritanian?)? The URL is 
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1722888,00.html, 
> and the piece is entitled "Google's Literary Land-grab."
>
> Joe Esposito