What is legal deposit?

The Legal Deposit is an administrative act whose mission is to collect bibliographic, sound, audiovisual, electronic material or made on any medium. Of course this includes CD Audio, DVD Audio, and DVD Video.

In Spain this management is decentralized in a provincial way. That is why the works have a code of this style: D.L .: B-xxxx-2012.

Where: B are the initials of the province (such as vehicle registration numbers. Example: B: Barcelona; M: Madrid; BI: Bilbao ..)

D.L .: Abbreviation of legal deposit.

Xxx: it is a correlative number given by the Administration.

2012: It is the year of the edition: 2009, 2010, 2011….).

Legal Deposit is regulated by law. Its objectives are, among others:

• The compilation and preservation of a national collection of bibliographic materials of all kinds.
• Statistical control of editorial production.
• The constitution of regional or local bibliographic collections.

The Legal Deposit is the obligation, which emanates from the Order of October 30, 1971, (pdf, 149 kB) by which the Regulations of the Hispanic Bibliographic Institute are approved, to deliver in the corresponding registry copies of publications of all kinds and in any medium for public distribution, rental or sale. Subsequently, said Order was modified by the Order of February 20, 1973 (pdf, 85 kB), by which some articles are modified. A new draft law is currently in process by the Government that should end with the publication of a new law after its relevant approval in Parliament.

What is not?

It is not a registry of intellectual property, nor a manager of rights or copyright.

What is it for?

Legal Deposit is regulated by law. It serves to:

• The compilation and preservation of a national collection of bibliographic materials of all kinds.
• Statistical control of editorial production.
• The constitution of regional or local bibliographic collections.
• Record an edition date.

Where do I have to go to manage the legal deposit?

In Spain, the Legal Deposit can be requested by the manufacturer, the printer or the publisher of a disc. They can be obtained in the Culture departments of the government delegations of the autonomous communities or of course you can ask us.

How to request legal deposit for my album?

You can request it on our website.

Then you have to give us 4 copies to make the corresponding registration.

About the service:

If you want your Legal Deposit, your ISRC and UPC codes, we can assign them to you. If you have not yet created a distribution account, you can do it for free in our Digital Distribution system. You can distribute your music to digital channels. In addition, from La Cupula Music, you can distribute your music to digital channels, have your own VEVO channel. The digital distribution of your music is a crucial value in your career, as well as the manufacture of CDs, the manufacture of vinyl, graphic design, merchandising, the production of videoclips or the musical promotion of your work. Do not stop working on each of the weaknesses that a musical career requires to be successful.