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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 No. 777
18.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a work published on line shall be treated as published in the United Kingdom if—
(a)it is made available to the public from a website with a domain name which relates to the United Kingdom or to a place within the United Kingdom; or
(b)it is made available to the public by a person and any of that person’s activities relating to the creation or the publication of the work take place within the United Kingdom.
(2) A work published on line shall not be treated as published in the United Kingdom if access to the work is only made available to persons outside the United Kingdom.
(3) Where work is published on the internet and the publication of that work or a person publishing it there is connected with the United Kingdom in the manner prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2), that manner of connection with the United Kingdom is also prescribed for the purposes of section 10(5)(b) of the Act.
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