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Not that there is an abundance of facts in this thread, but I feel compelled to point out that publishers don't own the copyright (in 99.9% of cases, at any rate). Authors own the copyright. That's why copyright is tied to the life of the author, not to whether or not a book is in print.
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One of the advantages of this project will be the preservation of historic literature written in the regional dialects of Italy. Many of these works have been disappearing, as few authors nowadays would write in a regional language. There was an attempt a few years ago to preserve literature written in my grandmother's native piemontese, but it never got off the ground.
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