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British library starts email archive
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from Thirteen/WNET New York
New Public Television Partnership Receives Major Program Preservation Award from the Library of Congress
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It is always encouraging to learn of the launch of digital preservation projects, this time on either side of the Atlantic, pointing to an increasing awareness of such a need in our present-day technology-driven culture. Much of the effort in this area is presently led by government organisations, which is indicative of the resource-intensive nature of archiving the tremendous amount of digital content out there. However, the undoing of such digital preservation efforts might well be the other increasing trend of litigation based on a fallacious interpretation of the notion of "copyright". A good starting point in understanding this debate (from an American persepctive) would be Peter Hirtle's "Digital Preservation and Copyright".