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posted by martyb on Thursday June 04 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the Project-Gutenberg-sind-nicht-seht-gut? dept.

Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy For Copyright Infringement:

Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive books, is sometimes described as the world’s oldest digital library.

Founded in 1971, Project Gutenberg‘s archives now stretch to a total of more than 62,000 books, with a focus on titles that entered the public domain after their copyrights expired. The library does carry some and in-copyright books but these are distributed with the express permission of their owners.

The project has an excellent reputation and its work is considered a great contribution to education and culture. However, it now transpires that the site has been rendered inaccessible by ISPs in Italy under the instructions of the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Rome.

[...] The seizure/blocking notice states that all of the targeted domains “distributed, transmitted and disseminated in pdf format, magazines, newspapers and books (property protected by copyright) after having illegally acquired numerous computer files with their content, communicating them to the public, [and] entering them into a system of communication networks.”

[...] “The investigation, conducted by a special unit of the Guardia di Finanza, has been developed in the context of monitoring the targeted Internet networks to combat economic and financial offenses perpetrated online.

“In this context, the operators identified some web resources registered on foreign servers which make content and magazines available to the public early in the morning, allowing users to view or download digital copies,” the court document reads. (translated from Italian)


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday June 05 2020, @08:22AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday June 05 2020, @08:22AM (#1003624) Journal

    Emphasis by me:

    “In this context, the operators identified some web resources registered on foreign servers which make content and magazines available to the public early in the morning, allowing users to view or download digital copies,” the court document reads. (translated from Italian)

    Does Italian copyright depend on the time of the day?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Friday June 05 2020, @08:49AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday June 05 2020, @08:49AM (#1003640) Journal

    I went to read the Italian doc, they wrote some guys put magazines and newspaper online from the early morning. So it is a daily pirate service, not archival or preservation or no profit. I do not think gutenberg is the main culprit here, just thrown in by people who dunno how notable it is.

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