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OpenPlate

Rights clearance desk for images

A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.

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Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

    290 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

  • Clevelandlive

    312 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 3 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for ""Heartvine" ("Aoi") chapter from The Tal"3 records

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"Heartvine" ("Aoi") chapter from The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Heartvine" ("Aoi") chapter from The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Unrecorded maker

16th century · Handscroll; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Imperial Carts (Gosho guruma) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Imperial Carts (Gosho guruma)

Unrecorded maker

mid-17th century · Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Żaqq by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Żaqq

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Cane, animal skin, cattle horn

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar

1. Pin the work

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2. Read the arithmetic

Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.

3. Seal and export

Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.