The publisher, producer and any importer have a joint responsibility for ensuring that copies of a document are delivered.
All documents that are distributed beyond a private circle must be handed over. This means that if you write a genealogy book for your immediate family, you do not need to hand it over, but once it is sold at the local bookstore or otherwise distributed to the public, you must hand over some copies.
Paper, microformat and photographs must be submitted in seven copies, while two copies are sufficient for sound or film recordings. TV and radio must also submit their productions, but they get away with one copy.
What is covered by the law?
- Newspapers
- Books
- Digital document
- Film and video
- Photography
- Map
- Combined document
- Broadcasting
- Audiobooks
- Microformer
- music
- Emergency printing
- Paper document in general
- Postcards and posters
- Small print
- Theater material
- Journal
What about the Internet?
More and more people are using the Internet to inform the outside world about their genealogical research findings. This is widely available and rarely only for a private circle (possibly password-protected pages). Surely the National Library cannot expect to receive websites and blogs?
Those who produce online documents are spared the work of submitting them, but they are also looked after by the National Library of Norway, which automatically downloads documents on the Norwegian part of the Internet. In other words, many genealogy sites are not taken care of. In order to get a Norwegian domain (.no), you need to have an organization number and many people, like Slekt1, therefore resort to .com or .net sites.
