Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical.
A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog.
Nuove regole sulle riproduzioni dei beni culturali: saremo più libere e liberi di usarle?
Academic works and news are now exempted from the fees, and so are catalogues printed in less than 4000 copies.
The bureaucratic abomination under-girding the system, however, remains in place.