Non available (I) – despre depozitul legal digital în România

This paper analyses the legal deposit and the way this istitution is treated and functions in the digital era, especially for the online versions of the newspapers and periodicals. First, it describes the evolution and the transformation in time of the content of the legal deposit. It looks at the elements composing a legal deposit scheme, the historical functions it played and the legal forms it took. A second part is dedicated to the challenges of the transition of the legal deposis institution from publications in print or on other material support to the more inefable digital realm. It focuses on three main features: comprehensitivity, obligativity and access and usage. A third part discusses, via a series of interviews, how the digital legal deposit is seen and dealt with in Romania.