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Friday, October 31, 2003

Web archiving legal in the UK

Parliament has enacted a law allowing the British Library to scrape and archive British websites.

"This new legislation will now mean that a vital part of the nation's published heritage will be safe," said MP Chris Mole, who supported the move.
The archive will comprise selective "harvesting" from the 2.9 million sites that have "co.uk" suffixes.

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