The purpose of the current research is investigating the legal issues of digital preservation and archiving of newspapers in the national libraries of Iran, Australia, and the US Congress. The current research with a qualitative and comparative approach and documentary analysis method studied and analyzed related documents and laws and selected national libraries regarding legal and copyright related to the digital preservation and archiving of newspapers. In this research, the Copyright law of Iran 1968, the draft bill of literary and artistic property of Iran, the copyright law of Australia, the copyright law of the United States, the UNESCO guidelines regarding digital preservation and archiving are reviewed. Then the portal the selected national libraries of Iran, Australia, and the US Congress were studied for this purpose and the final analysis was presented using open coding (primary, secondary coding and categorization).
The analysis of the results showed that the preservation of important historical resources in archival centers and libraries, determining the legal framework of copyright for digital preservation, digital archiving content under the law, temporary and permanent storage, preparing backup copies of digital resources, publishing articles newspaper (as a result of employment), reproduction of newspaper articles with profit and non-profit purposes, protection of newspaper articles by copyright law, exceptions of newspapers in the copyright law for libraries and archival centers and the like. They can be used in the draft bill and the National Library of Iran for the digital preservation of newspapers.