From the Project Gutenberg newsletter: "In the last hour Project Gutenberg released their 15,000th eBook."
What an amazing effort. Congratulations to everyone involved. :-)
BTW, if you're looking for a text, and can't find it on the main site, visit Project Gutenberg of Australia.
Copyright protection in Australia extends from the author's death, plus 50 years:
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Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter into the public domain in Australia.
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This means that Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell, 1936) is available at Project Gutenberg of Australia.