Non-Print Legal Deposit and Music in the UK a progress report Richard Chesser & Rupert Ridgewell

This article brings the history of legal deposit in the UK up-to-date with developments in digital depositing. It includes a summary of the 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act and the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations of 2013. It describes the work being done at the British Library to implement the legislation and some of the challenges posed by music to the complexities of collecting non-print material, making it available to users and storing it for posterity. This has involved a pilot project to ingest digital content from two major UK publishers and a survey of the current digital landscape for notated music which is summarised here.