The Recording As a Creation: The Legal Deposit of Sound Recordings at the Biblioteca Nacional de España
Abstract
The Spanish National Library's collection of sound recordings has its origins in the Ministry of Education's Decree of October 13, 1938, on Legal Deposit, which legislates, for the first time, that "musical works and gramophone recordings are subject to Legal Deposit" and establishes that the phonographic producer is responsible for depositing the discs for their preservation. For this reason, since the time of the Spanish Civil War, the legislator includes sound recordings as works that must be collected and guarded to be part of the Spanish cultural and documentary heritage. This first legislation will be followed by other laws of Legal Deposit, which have allowed the catalog of recordings to become part of the Spanish cultural and documentary heritage.
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