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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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

    357 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. 4 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "A Swell Smoker -- Getting the Short End"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Cornelis Cort, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Cornelis Cort (d. 1578)

1571 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Reed Organ (Physharmonica) by Alexander-François Debain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reed Organ (Physharmonica)

Alexander-François Debain (d. 1877)

ca. 1860 · Palisander, brass.

Cleared · Public Domain

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Bala by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bala

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Wood, gourd, hide, membrane

Cleared · Public Domain

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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.

A Swell Smoker -- Getting the Short End

John Cameron (d. 1896)

1888 · Lithograph with printed color and some hand-coloring

In copyright

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1. 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.