Rina Pantalony, co-author of this issue organized this panel with the focus being on the interaction of copyright law, digital preservation and the role of libraries, archives and museums in that mission. The World Intellectual Property Organization commissioned and recently published a Toolkit on Preservation with the purpose of examining copyright law in the context of the preservation of complex library, archive and museum collections that include complex 20th and 21st century media. The Toolkit served as a departure point for this discussion.