The policy of the Special Collections Library at Duke University does not restrict the use of the images of Duke Papyri found on the WorldWideWeb.
All images are in the public domain.
We are happy to enter a scholar s name in our data base as working on a particular text. We can provide this information and the date on which we entered it to subsequent inquirers. The possibility that two people will be working on one text unbeknownst to the other is minimal in our small world. In any case the benefits, speaking only of the Duke Collection, of making 1378 pieces of evidence for the ancient world available far outweigh the possible inconvenience of anyone. I might add that in the 6 years that the Duke Papyrus Archive has been on the Web about 30 texts have been or are about to be published from Web images.