[cosmos0072]

Found: it's a sentence from 2020, and PG decided not to appeal (!?)

Full story (in Italian) at https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2020/06/30/progetto-gutenb...

[charonn0]

Seems like a case for HTTP 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) rather than 404.

[amelius]

HTTP 666 (We're evil) seems more fitting here.

[johndough]

It looks like the issue was that, in Italy, copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author or the first translator of a work.

[JSeiko]

PG works based on US copyright law. And as I understand it that's also 70 years after author/translator death. My gut feeling is that if anyone tried hard enough this ban could probably get lifted

[robin_reala]

That’s only the case for works published after the mid-70s. For works published before (which is all current PD books in the US), it’s 95 years after the date of publication, with a few exceptions where people failed to file renewal notices.