Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
464 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
329 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 24 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
No open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[Atomic Bomb Explosion]
Harold Edgerton (d. 1990)
1946–52 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[Atomic Bomb Explosion]
Harold Edgerton (d. 1990)
1946–52 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Memory of War Defeat, Ruins on Dockyard in Toyokawa, Aichi
Shomei Tomatsu (d. 2012)
1959, printed 1990 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
King Kong Meets the Atomic Bomb
John Blair Mitchell (d. 1999)
ca. 1964 · Aquatint, printed in color
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The Apocalypse
Jaime Alfredo Mereles
ca. 1965 · Linocut
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Now!
Adam Fuss (d. 9999)
1988 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Max and Gaby's Alphabet
Tony Fitzpatrick (d. 2025)
1999–2000 · Suite of 26 color etchings
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
Choose the record and say what you are actually going to do with it. The product re-reads the work live and stores a snapshot, so your docket records what the institution said today.
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.