Foreign publications subject to the legal deposit requirement

We collect single copies of media works published abroad. These are acquired by legal deposits, as gifts, by exchange or by purchase. Licensed editions published abroad must be deposited with the German National Library if the original was published in Germany. This specifically includes translations into other languages. The party required to fulfil the deposit obligation is the rights holder who published the work in Germany and who can grant rights to third parties, e.g. licenses to distribute the work abroad.