1. Identify the different types of deposits

1.1 Legal deposit

This is the obligation imposed on all publishers, printers, producers and distributors to deposit a copy of the documents or elements they publish, print, produce and distribute with the organization authorized to receive them (in particular, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the CNC and INA). The legal deposit obligation applies in particular to written publications, software packages, databases, sound, audiovisual and multimedia documents. Websites are also subject to legal deposit, but in an automated way, with no action...