The following email was in response to my question to an Irish publisher
of poetry. I hope it helps.
Andrew
My understanding has always been that what was required was the four
copies of the constituent libraries of the National University of
Ireland, but that was indeed changed in the 2000 Copyright Act, which
increased the number of copies required to 13
, as indicated in your correspondent's email. I suspect at least some
small press publishers are unaware of the change and continue to send
only to the 4
constituents of the National Library.
An interesting side-effect of the new act is pointed out here below in a
note from the CLÉ (Association of Irish Book Publishers)
Newsletter of April 2007:
2000 Copyright Act
The copyright deposit section (198) of the 2000 Copyright Act is to come
into force on 1 May. There is no difference to the requirement to
provide 13 copies for Irish publishers, though the potential fine for
non-compliance has been raised to £500 (sic). An intriguing
change in the law however involves overseas publishers. The Act
distinguishes between books 'first published in the State' who are
liable to supply the full 13 copies, and 'any book published' (i.e.
issued to the public). According to s 1 the publisher of the latter is
now liable to provide a free copy to the National Library. So from 1 May
the National Library will be legally entitled to demand a copy of every
Penguin, Random House and Yale University Press book sold here.
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