Act No. 20 / 1947 Coll.
Law on compulsory copies
Valid
Effective from 25.02.1947
20.
Law
of 29 January 1947
on compulsory copies.
The Constitutional National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on this law:
The obligation to submit compulsory copies shall apply to:
(a) printed printed or published in the Czechoslovak Republic,
(b) printed matter, with the exception of magazines, printed or published abroad, if the publisher or author is resident in the Czechoslovak Republic.
(1) Printed under this Act are writings, images or music, reproduced by printing, or by other mechanical or chemical means, excluding works of cinematographic, phonographic, plastic and photographic.
(2) The magazine is printed matter which is based on periods such as irregular periods, but which is not produced in books or in volumes, such as regular periods, if they form a whole in themselves.
(3) The publisher is also the co-publisher, the originator and the co-author.
Unless otherwise stated in the next section (Section 4), the obligation to submit compulsory copies shall not apply to:
(a) printed matter which serves only domestic or social needs or which is issued only for the purpose of the use of institutions, businesses, shops and trade, such as: visitors, invitations, family announcements, tickets, forms, blankets, samples, prospectuses, stickers, circulars, postcards with a picture or text limiting to congratulations or reminders on certain landscapes, calendars limiting to astronomical, church, advertising and programmes (order) or programme books of entertainment enterprises, film scenarios, price lists and such;
(b) printed matter intended solely for election purposes, such as electoral lists, candidate lists, ballots, election statements, containing only information on the time and place of election, the party designation, the name, status and residence of the candidates and the call for election, as well as printed matter limited to a mere communication of the outcome of the elections;
(c) printed matter (with the exception of magazines) reproduced by means of a machine or other propagating apparatus or by means of a hectograph, an autocopist, a template or a counter, and so on, if they are intended to be supplied only to a definitely limited circle of persons;
(d) securities and stamps of all kinds;
(e) printed matter issued by the State authorities in their field of competence.
(1) After one compulsory copy of all the printed matter referred to in § 1 and, at the request of the printed matter referred to in § 3 (a) and (b), it is submitted for the purposes of permanent storage (preservation) of the National and University Library in Prague and the University Library in Bratislava. In addition, two copies and a copy of the information to the Ministry of Information, as well as one copy of the National Assembly Library, shall be submitted to the Ministry of Information for the purposes of the registration document referred to in § 1 and § 3 (b) and (e).
(2) Following the compulsory printing of the printed matter referred to in § 1 (a) and (b) for the purposes of the study, the Zemská and University Library in Brno, the Université Library in Olomouc and Slovenskej navnadnej lednišnice v Turč. St. Martin. After two compulsory copies of all youth books, Suk's library at J. A. Komenský Research Institute in Prague is handed over.
(3) The Government shall determine by order which offices and libraries are to be surrendered after a compulsory copy of all or some of the printed matter referred to in Section 1 and, at the request of the printing material referred to in Section 3 (a) and (b), for official or academic purposes. The number of compulsory copies for these purposes may not be more than five for the authorities, more than twenty for libraries. The obligation to submit compulsory copies for these purposes shall not apply to printed matter not intended for sale and shall be issued with a cost not exceeding 100 copies.
(4) The Government may, by regulation, admit to the authorities or libraries which will be entitled only to compulsory copies of certain printed matter under the regulation issued in accordance with paragraph 3, the right to require them to be surrendered after one compulsory copy of the other printed matter referred to in § 1 at half the cost of the cow's price. This right can also be granted by the government by regulation to other study libraries in cities where there is a university or its turn. However, this right of request may not be recognised by parties to non-sales printed matter, issued by a cost not exceeding 100 copies (paragraph 3), and by printed matter which is cost-adjusted (§ 6, paragraph 3).
(1) Submission of the required copies of the printed prints printed in the Czechoslovak Republic to the publisher's account is required by the printer, if the entire printing has been printed with him, otherwise the publisher. If the printer does not surrender the required copy within the prescribed time limit (§ 7), the obligation to surrender to the publisher shall pass on without prejudice to the criminal liability of the printer. The delivery of the required copies of printed prints printed abroad is required by the publisher or author (§ 1, point (b)).
(2) If the persons referred to in paragraph 1 do not submit compulsory copies, the Office or the library shall have the right to purchase copies on behalf of the debtor. If they exercise this right, they shall enter the place of the obligation to surrender the required copy, the obligation to pay the cost of purchasing the copy.
(1) Unless otherwise specified in the following, the required copies shall be submitted free of charge without prior request. If the printed matter has been printed on papers of different quality, the required copy shall be submitted on paper as durable as possible. If the entire cargo of the printed material is extended by a booklet, the printed copy of the booklet shall be submitted, if only a portion of it is bound, it shall be bound.
(2) The Government may, by means of a regulation, make compulsory copies subject to the requirement of the Office or the library, except in the cases referred to in Section 4. If it has been requested to send magazines without limitation to a specific number, such a request shall apply to all numbers which will come out upon request.
(3) In case of copies which have been delivered for purposes other than permanent storage (§ 4 (1)), half of the cost of cow's price shall be paid unless the compulsory copy has been returned within one month. Prints of which the production, looking at the material used, the artistic journey or the method of reproduction requires cargo exceeding the normal limits shall be regarded as expensive; in cases of dispute, the Ministry of Information, in agreement with the Ministry of Education and Education, decides whether a copy is expensive or defective.
(4) Where a copy has been sent defective or a copy which does not comply with the provisions of the second and third sentences of paragraph 1, the correct copy shall be sent within eight days of the request.
(1) Compulsory copies of magazines are to be submitted immediately after printing, other printed matter, as soon as it is started to expand them.
(2) Where the surrender of a compulsory copy depends on the request of the Office or the library, the copy shall be sent within eight days of the date on which the request for surrender was received.
(1) In the first five days of each month, the local printer is obliged to send to the Ministry of Information, as well as to the delegates of information, the National and University Library in Prague, the University Library in Bratislava, the Earth and University Library in Brno, the University Library in Olomouc and the Slovak National Library in Turč. St. Martin's statement of all printed matter printed in the previous month, with the exception of periodic forms (within the meaning of the laws on printing) and printed matter referred to in § 3, or a report that he had not printed any such printed matter in the previous month. If a particular work is printed in several printers, the publisher (publisher) shall also submit the relevant summary statement. The statement shall state:
(a) the name of the printed matter, and, if it is a representation, the indication of its subject matter;
(b) the name or pseudonym of the originator;
(c) the name and address of the publisher;
(d) place of printing and date of completion of printing;
(e) the number of pages of the printed matter,
(f) the amount of the costs including the copies referred to in Article 11 of the Law of 11 May 1923, No 106 Coll., on the Publishing Agreement,
(g) the shop price, if the printing material is for sale and the printer price is known.
(2) The reports and reports shall be submitted on samples issued by the Ministry of Information for this purpose.
(3) Printers, publishers, originators or their agents and successors in title, the Ministry of Information shall issue an official statement of the printed matter which they have printed, issued or of which they are authors from the statements they have deposited. If it requests an extract of the author of an anonymous or pseudonym work, it must certify the legal interest of the publisher by means of a contract or other reliable document from the publisher.
(1) Proceedings or omissions contrary to the provisions of this law or to the rules issued pursuant to it, punishes, if not criminal offences, the District National Committee as an administrative offence by fine up to 50,000 Kcs. In the event of non-availability of the fine, a replacement prison sentence (lockdown) shall also be imposed within three months. The fines go to the Treasury.
(2) The sentence referred to in paragraph 1 shall not result in the waiver of the obligation to submit a compulsory copy in addition or to send compulsory statements and reports.
(3) If the printer does not submit the compulsory statements (§ 8 (1)) either at all or if he submits the compulsory statements with incorrect data, the district national committee may make a criminal finding of loss of business authorisation, condemning the printer for the third time for such an offence committed within a period of one year.
(1) All other provisions contained in the provisions on matters governed by this Law are hereby repealed.
(2) The provisions of the press laws on the obligation to submit compulsory copies to the prosecutors and the state security authorities are not affected by this law. The Ministry of Information shall, in agreement with the ministries of the Interior, Education and Education and Justice, take measures to ensure that such copies, if not necessary for further official proceedings, are submitted to public libraries, prisons, education centres and similar institutions.
This Act will be implemented by the Minister of Information in agreement with the Ministers of the Interior, Education and Information and Justice.
Dr Beneš v. r.
Gottwald v. r.
Kopecký v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 20 / 1947 Coll., on compulsory copies |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 25.02.1947 |
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| Effective from | 25.02.1947 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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