The Library’s Copyright Office is proposing changes to the rules governing mandatory deposit of electronic online-only works which would leave them “exempt from mandatory deposit” but now only “until a demand for deposit of copies or phonorecords of such works is issued by the Copyright Office.” They also seek to “establish new best edition criteria for electronic serials available only online.” The office notes that “Twenty years have passed since the adoption of the regulation used to exclude from mandatory copyright deposit electronic works published in the United States and available only online. In that time, the Internet has grown […]
