Sources and legal status

Article 1. Purpose

The Greek Library publishes only the established text of ancient, Byzantine and medieval Greek works. No critical apparatus, introduction, note or translation by a modern editor is reproduced.

Article 2. The works

The works published are in the public domain (French Intellectual Property Code, art. L. 123‑1).

Article 3. The editions

A scholarly transcription of an ancient text is not an original work within the meaning of copyright. The editor’s choices belong to scientific method, not to personal expression. The established text, published without apparatus, is therefore not protected.

Only the critical apparatus, commentaries, introductions and translations may be protected. We do not publish them.

Article 4. Provenance

• Digitisations made by our team from printed editions in the public domain.
• Corpora under a free licence, whose terms we respect and which each edition credits in its header: Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University, CC BY-SA), Open Greek and Latin (First1KGreek, Leipzig and Harvard, CC BY-SA), CLLG Freed Corpus (Inria, CC BY), the transcriptions of The Source Library (Embassy of the Free Mind, Amsterdam; CC BY-SA 4.0), the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (CC BY-SA), papyri.info (Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri, CC BY), the Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, CC BY), Anthologia Graeca (Université de Montréal), the Patristic Text Archive (CC BY-SA), the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (CC BY-SA) and the Vesuvius Challenge (CC BY-NC).
• Textual content of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae CD-ROM E.

The Greek Library and its members are bound to the TLG by no contract, subscription, licence or terms of use. No online service of the TLG has been used. No technical protection measure has been circumvented (French Intellectual Property Code, art. L. 331‑5).

Article 5. Applicable law

The site is hosted in France and is governed by French law and the law of the European Union.

Article 6. Claims

Any claim must be sent to and include:

1. the exact URL of the content concerned;
2. the identification of the work claimed and of the rights holder;
3. evidence establishing the originality of the content claimed, the burden of which lies with the claimant.

General or undocumented claims will not be followed up. Admissible claims are handled in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

Article 7. Reuse

Texts and enrichments are distributed under the licence:

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-SA 4.0