Le droit du num\'erique : une histoire \`a pr\'eserver

TL;DR

This paper provides a historical overview of digital law, emphasizing the importance of preserving legal documents and history within the context of digital and computer science museums.

Contribution

It offers a concise history of digital law and discusses challenges in preserving legal digital works for future presentation.

Findings

Digital law history is recent but complex.

Preservation of digital legal works faces unique challenges.

Legal issues impact the curation of digital history.

Abstract

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an historical perspective as well as with respect to the preservation and presentation of the works.