In March 2002, the Wellcome Trust and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) awarded a contract to UKOLN to undertake a feasibility study into web archiving. Read more about this project here. Very important seems the report (79 pp. - PDF File) about "Legal issues relating to the archiving of Internet resources in the UK, EU, US and Australia" by Andrew Charlesworth, University of Bristol, Centre for IT and Law
(Version 1.0 - 25 February 2003).