islation has established significant barriers to the effective 
preservation of digital records over the long term, most notably that regarding copyright.  
It was the responsibility of the InterPARES 2 Policy Cross-domain research team 
(hereinafter “the Policy team”) to determine whether it was possible to establish a framework of 
principles that could guide the creation of policies, strategies and standards, and that would be 
flexible enough to be useful in differing national environments, and consiste