Archival repositories have enthusiastically begun to digitize their holdings in order to make them more widely available via the Internet; however, copyright issues influence what is selected for online access. This article reports the findings of a study that investigated how copyright affects what items Canadian archival repositories select for digitization and online access. The study found that Canadian repositories select items that are perceived to incur little risk of copyright infringement (because the copyright has expired or because the repository owns the copyright), or those that require few or no resources to investigate copyright status or obtain copyright authorizations. The findings suggest that repositories’ selection decisions are more restrictive than the law requires; because they want to avoid copyright complications, they are making available online fewer holdings than they could.