TY - JOUR T1 - The state of e-legal deposit in France: Looking back at five years of putting new legislation into practice and envisioning the future JF - IFLA Journal Y1 - 2012 A1 - Peter Stirling A1 - Gildas Illien A1 - Pascal Sanz A1 - Sophie Sepetjan AB - The article describes the legal situation in France regarding the legal deposit of digital material, and shows how it has been implemented in practice at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The focus is on web archiving, where the BnF has experience going back almost 10 years, but other aspects of digital legal deposit are discussed, with possible future developments and challenges. Throughout comparisons are made with the situations in other countries. VL - 38 IS - 1 ER -