Terms & Conditions of use of the website
Use of texts
Copyright Amsterdam Pipe Museum for the Pijpenkabinet Foundation in Amsterdam, but use allowed under Creative Commons Licenses.
The Amsterdam Pipe Museum website by Stichting Pijpenkabinet Amsterdam is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Netherlands License.
Comments: Use of textual information published on this web page permitted under the license terms of "Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike". This means, among other things, that when using a computer or computer network, adding an active link to www.pipemuseum.nl is a prerequisite, as well as the citation '© Amsterdam Pipe Museum'. Abuse of these flexible license terms is combated.
Use of photos
Copyright photo work Amsterdam Pipe Museum for the Pijpenkabinet Foundation - all photos are taken by our own photographers, the copyright of the photos rests with the Pijpenkabinet Foundation. Written permission from the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is required for taking pictures. Our museum has larger digital files available for publishers and other commercial users. The Pijpenkabinet Foundation is not obliged to grant permission for use, but will honor all reasonable requests.
All objects and documents shown on this website are in the possession of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, formerly Pijpenkabinet. Great care has been taken to keep potentially copyrighted documents out of the consultable part of the website, even if these documents are present in the collection for internal consultation. As far as possible we have made an effort to ask rightholders for permission to publish. It is not our intention to disadvantage any entitled party. After all, the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is a non-commercial organization whose task as a museum is to disseminate information and expertise about the pipe as a historical culture medium. If you believe that you are the rightholder of material on this website, we request you to report to the Pijpenkabinet Foundation (see contact page).
Use of the database
The databases that are part of this website are subject to the Database Act 1999. Employees of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, formerly Pijpenkabinet, have produced the database on the basis of their own research and through great efforts. Incidental use of text information from the database is permitted under Creative Commons Licenses (see above), copying or duplication of more than one record falls under the database right vested in the Pijpenkabinet Foundation. Abuse of this rule is considered a serious violation of this right and is being contested legally.
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The website, including the database has been designed by Datatrippers-Amsterdam in consultation with the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, who owns the copyright.
The production of this website has been made possible partly by the financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In addition, thanks to a generous contribution from the VSB Fund, Utrecht.
The unpaid dedication of the curator of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum for more than fifty years has ensured that the enormous amount of basic material of objects, books, documentation and archive data was available for digitization. Entering hundreds of thousands of data into the computer has been a priceless activity that forms the basis of this website.