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

charonn0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

johndough 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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