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do i need to register my monthly magazine in uk
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's not clear from your question exactly what you mean by 'register'. We have a free press so (subject to the usual laws on defamation, etc) anyone is free to publish whatever they want, with no need to 'register' their publications with any governing body (because no such body exists anyway).
However the law on 'Legal Deposit' requires you to send a copy of every issue of your magazine to the British Library and, if requested, also to the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, the University Library in Cambridge, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin:
http:// www.bl. uk/abou tus/leg aldepos it/inde x.html
Chris
However the law on 'Legal Deposit' requires you to send a copy of every issue of your magazine to the British Library and, if requested, also to the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, the University Library in Cambridge, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin:
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Chris
If you do as Buenchico instructs, your magazine ( the first issue at least) will pass through the hands of the Copyright Agents to the British National Bibliography, which will catalogue it and include it in one of its weekly lists. This is a bit like registering a title with the (US) Library of Congress. But, unlike with the LoC, it is not necessary to have the BNB listing in order to be able to claim your copyright in the material you publish.