{"id":650788,"date":"2013-04-05T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=227188"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:46:51","slug":"the-uk-moves-to-preserve-its-digital-history-paywalled-content-and-some-tweets-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650788","title":{"rendered":"The UK moves to preserve its digital history, paywalled content (and some tweets) included"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last century, the U.K. has had what is known as a legal deposit law requiring a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper to be sent to the British Library, and allowing five other major libraries to also request copies. Now the rules are being updated: from Saturday, the same will apply to digital content, including blogs and other content published online.<\/p>\n

The idea, much as it was with printed content, is to archive the U.K.\u2019s cultural and intellectual output. The libraries \u2014 including the British Library, the national libraries of Scotland and Wales, Trinity College Library Dublin, the Bodleian Libraries and Cambridge University Library \u2014 will be allowed to scrape and store everything on the .uk domain, and to demand copies of ebooks, e-journals and even CD-ROMs published in the U.K.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an interesting snippet from the FAQ<\/a>s:<\/p>\n