Deposit,Copyright and the Notion of a ‘Document’

The paper addresses the relation between the duty to deposit copies of a document and the copyright legislation, and attempts to discuss the challenges in transposing this obligation to the environment of electronic publishing, typically by making websites available to the public. As law is fused to the territorial authority of the nation, it is difficult to escape the national reference, and therefore the Norwegian system will be highlighted as an example of a legislation imposing the duty of depositing documents neutral to the storage medium.