{"id":41,"date":"2022-08-02T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dev.nb.no\/en\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:51:58","slug":"legal-deposit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nb.no\/en\/legal-deposit\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t2-ingress wp-block-t2-ingress\">All material published in Norway must be legally deposited with the National Library of Norway. This applies regardless of the format of publication, as the law is media-neutral.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Legal depositing ensures that those parts of the Norwegian cultural heritage that are manifested as published material are preserved for posterity. 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