Audiovisual Legal Deposit register
If 'no information' is shown for your country please contribute by completing the simple form at www.ifla-av-legal-deposit-form.iasa-web.org
This database of Legal Deposit for audiovisual materials, country by country, is being "crowdsourced" by IFLA and IASA members and other contributors from the audiovisual archiving profession.
Click a country name for more details about legal deposit in that country.
This register is not intended to collate comprehensive information, nor can IASA and IFLA vouch for its accuracy; however, the register gives an indication of the existence (or not) of legal deposit in each country and links to further information. We hope that such information on worldwide practices will help individual countries to obtain or improve their own legal deposit legislation.
If no information is available about a particular country, can you help? Complete the short questionnaire at www.ifla-av-legal-deposit-form.iasa-web.org and your information will be added here (you may use the same form to submit corrections). Please note that we need information even for those countries that have no legal deposit legislation for audiovisual materials.
Country |
Legal deposit for printed materials | Legal deposit for AV materials | AV materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | Yes | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Websites or other internet-based content; Multimedia materials on physical carriers, such as CD-ROM, DVD-ROM; online publications (such as downloadable sound recordings) |
| Lebanon | No information | No information | |
| Lesotho | No information | No information | |
| Liberia | No information | No information | |
| Libya | No information | No information | |
| Liechtenstein | No information | No information | |
| Lithuania | No information | No information | |
| Luxembourg | No information | No information | |
| Macedonia | Yes | Yes | Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) |
| Madagascar | No information | No information | |
| Malawi | No information | No information | |
| Malaysia | No information | No information | |
| Mali | No information | No information | |
| Malta | No information | No information | |
| Martinique | No information | No information | |
| Mauritius | No information | No information | |
| Mexico | Yes, since 1991 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.) ; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); TV broadcasts; Computer games |
| Moldova | No information | No information | |
| Monaco | No information | No information | |
| Mongolia | No information | No information | |
| Montenegro | No information | No information | |
| Morocco | No information | No information | |
| Mozambique | No information | No information | |
| Myanmar | No information | No information | |
| Namibia | No information | No information | |
| Nepal | No information | No information | |
| Netherlands | No | No | |
| New Caledonia | No information | No information | |
| New Zealand | Yes, since 1903 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Websites or other internet-based content |
| Nicaragua | No information | No information | |
| Niger | No information | No information | |
| Nigeria | No information | No information | |
| North Korea | No information | No information | |
| Norway | Yes, since 1882 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.), Film, Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.), Radio broadcasts, TV broadcasts, Computer games, Websites or other internet-based content |
| Oman | No information | No information | |
| Pakistan | No information | No information | |
| Panama | No information | No information | |
| Papua New Guinea | Yes, since 1993 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); 'publications of all kinds reproduced in any medium by any process for public distribution, lease, or sale' |
| Paraguay | No information | No information | |
| Peru | No information | No information | |
| Philippines | No information | No information | |
| Poland | Yes | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; TV broadcasts |
| Portugal | Yes, since 1982 | No | |
| Puerto Rico | No information | No information | |
| Qatar | No information | No information | |
| Reunion | No information | No information | |
| Romania | Yes, since 1972 | No | |
| Russian Federation | No information | No information | |
| Rwanda | No information | No information | |
| Saint Lucia | No information | No information |
