The Royal manuscripts are one of the closed collections of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the Old Royal Library and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call numbers using the prefix Royal in the style Royal ...Library of Congress. In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the copyright system in the Library of Congress. This law required all owners of copyrights of publicly distributed works to deposit in the Library two copies of every such work registered in the United States, whether it is a book, pamphlet, map, print, or piece of music.
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