The purpose of this paper is to show the existing practices and acts and legislations in terms of collecting electronic legal deposit. In the very beginning of the paper, the author will describe the historical context of the emergence of collecting legal deposit practice; also, the purpose and methods of collecting legal deposit will be defined, as well as an overview of legal basis in terms of legal deposit in Croatia. After that, the term of electronic publication will be defined, as well as its importance. Next, there will be a deeper exploration of problems regarding collection of legal deposit, with an emphasis on the shortcomings of legal acts and the potential technical issues in the process of collecting and archiving electronic publications. That will lead to an overview of the practice of collecting electronic legal deposit in Croatia and there will be an comparison of the same legal acts in the United Kingdom and Finland. The results of the comparison lead the author to the conclusion that collecting electronic legal deposit if the upmost importance since a growing number of intellectual and cultural works are only stored in some type of electronic publications. It can be observed that electronic publications cannot be easily defined and collected, which leads to the conclusion that legal acts have to be written in a way that covers all current and future electronic publications. In the end, the legal acts written in the United Kingdom and Finland are adequately prepared in that regard, but the Croatian legal act does not anticipate that, and is too specific in a negative way with only contemporary technology and electronic publications in mind.