1. Welcome to Prague Concert Life 1850-1881: an annotated database

Prague Concert Life 1850-1881: an annotated database is a freely available resource – published online at www.prague-concerts.info (hereafter referred to as the ‘website’) – providing records of music performance events, and of the society, culture and physical environment encompassing those events, being given in Prague over the years 1850 to 1881. This information is obtained from reports, reviews, news, advertisements and ephemera appearing in first-hand Prague newspapers and journals of the time.

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3. Authorised Users

The Resource is open access and is free for all to use as a research tool or for general interest browsing. All such users of this resource are considered Authorised Users provided they respect and follow the terms and conditions herein.

Unauthorised Users are those users of The Resource who view, reproduce, display, print or disseminate any part of The Resource without regard to Section 4, Section 5 or Section 6 of these Terms and Conditions, or who access the The Resource with intent to access, infiltrate, alter or delete any part of The Resource website, associated applications or database content.

4. Content

‘Content’ refers to:

• the entirety of The Resource as is published online and is made available to Authorised Users through the website;
• the fabric and composition of the website, its web pages, their style, layout and software (henceforth referred to as ‘Application Content’);
• all data (henceforth referred to as ‘Data Content’) contained in The Resource, whether that be raw data with which the database is populated at database field level, or processed data offered and obtainable through The Resource’s integrated search mechanisms and thence presented as database records.

5. Permitted Uses of the Content

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7. Disclaimer

Prague Concert Life 1850-1881: an annotated database and its associated web application www.prague-concerts.info is purely a historical reference resource the raw content of which is based on Prague newspaper and journal entries from the middle-nineenth century. The translation and explication of those entries has been executed with the utmost care and scholarly integrity. Nonetheless, neither the resource not its editors shall be held responsible for any inherent inaccuracies in the information this resource contains. All such information is provided ‘as is’.

8. Privacy Policy

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Your use of this website constitutes an acceptance on your part of the policies contained in these Terms and Conditions.