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
218 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
504 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 383 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Seated Woman Weeping in front of Flowers
Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper; framing lines in pen and black ink
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Seated Man Smoking and Woman Pointing (from Sketchbook)
Francis William Edmonds (d. 1863)
ca. 1838 and after · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Seated Man; Standing Woman (from Sketchbook)
Francis William Edmonds (d. 1863)
ca. 1838 and after · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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.
Tristan Tzara
Man Ray (d. 1976)
1921 · 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.
[Group Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Group Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Group Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Group Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Man and Woman Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Men Seated on Stoop in French Quarter Doorway, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
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.
[Two Women and Child Seated on Stoop in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
February–March 1935 · Film negative
In copyright
live1. 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.