This book focuses on the legal aspects of digital preservation and offers legal guidance in that area these can include potential violation of data protection laws through the storage of personal data and potential infringement of a copyright holders exclusive right to reproduce and store their copyright protected data. But besides these obvious legal issues a holistic digital preservation system will be affected by many different laws and regulations even if the number of european regulations and national laws is finite it is quite impossible to consider every single law of 28 member states and analyse their impact on a digital preservation system for business processes especially if one analyses only . The preserving of business processes is an emerging challenge for each company regardless of industry sector and size this book focuses on the legal aspects of digital preservation and offers legal guidance in that area this important book illustrates the implications of preservation actions on intellectual property rights and data protection these can include potential violation of data protection laws through the storage of personal data and potential infringement of a copyright . Publikations datenbank der fraunhofer wissenschaftler und institute aufsatze studien forschungsberichte konferenzbeitrage tagungsbande patente und gebrauchsmuster