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Audiovisual Legal Deposit register

If 'no information' is shown for your country please contribute by completing the simple form at www.iasa-web.org/legal-deposit/questionnaire

This register is an online database of Legal Deposit for audiovisual materials, country by country. The data is being "crowdsourced" by IFLA and IASA members and by 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.iasa-web.org/legal-deposit/questionnaire 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.

Countrysort descending Legal deposit for printed materials Legal deposit for AV materials AV materials
Saudi Arabia No information No information
Senegal Yes, since 1976 No
Serbia Yes, since 1870 Yes Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Computer games
Seychelles No information No information
Sierra Leone No information No information
Singapore No information No information
Slovakia No information No information
Slovenia No information No information
Solomon Islands No information No information
Somalia No information No information
South Africa No information No information
South Korea No information No information
South Sudan No information No information
Spain Yes, since 1716 (printed books for the Royal Library in Madrid); 1958 (Catalonia) Yes Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; Computer games; Websites or other internet-based content; commercial av material related to the production
Sri Lanka Yes, 1839 Yes Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.)
Sudan No information No information
Suriname No information No information
Swaziland No information No information
Sweden Yes, since 1661 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
Switzerland No No
Syrian Arab Republic No information No information
Taiwan, Province of China No information No information
Tajikistan No information No information
Tanzania No information No information
Thailand No information No information
Timor-Leste No information No information
Togo No information No information
Trinidad and Tobago No information No information
Tunisia No information No information
Turkey No information No information
Turkmenistan No information No information
Turks and Caicos Islands No information No information
Uganda No information No information
Ukraine No information No information
United Arab Emirates No information No information
United Kingdom Yes, since 1662 No
United States No information No information
Uruguay No information No information
Uzbekistan No information No information
Vanuatu No information No information
Vatican City State No information No information
Venezuela No information No information
Viet Nam No information No information
Western Sahara No information No information
Yemen No information No information
Zambia Yes, since 1964 Law under development
Zimbabwe No information No information

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