On the other hand recurrent storing of successive printings of unrevised editions does not add to the information content of legal deposit collections. The working group thus proposes that unrevised impressions be excluded from legal deposit collections. The working group also proposes that the amended Act will follow the principle of the previous Act in excluding materials with very little information content. However, more detailed instructions regarding these kinds of materials will be included in the forthcoming amendment of the corresponding Legal Deposit Decree. According to the 1984 legislation on the archiving of films, all film material irrespective of production technology and storage medium are submitted to the Finnish Film Archive.
Multimedia consists of computer-generated data including text, images and sound.
In some cases, multimedia is categorised as audiovisual material on the basis of the storage medium, in some cases as electronic publication because of the production technology. In some cases, because of the content matter, it is even seen approaching the traditional categories of books or film. The performance of multimedia is not restricted by any predetermined order and thus the forthcoming legal deposit legislation will categorise it as electronic material. Often these products have an ISBN code, in which case they belong within the scope of the Legal Deposit Act in the same category as printed monographs. Talking books, audio casettes and recorded literature, which have traditionally been classified as audiovisual material, may today also be produced in multimedia versions.