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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.

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  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "A Winter Sky"5 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

A Winter Sky by George Inness, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Winter Sky

George Inness (d. 1894)

1866 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Gazing at a Waterfall by Tani Bunchō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Gazing at a Waterfall

Tani Bunchō (d. 1841)

1790 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Poem on Plum by Yi Hwang, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Poem on Plum

Yi Hwang (d. 1570)

1700s–1800s · Calligraphy, hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · CC0

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River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day by Dong Qichang, The Cleveland Museum of Art

River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day

Dong Qichang (d. 1636)

c. 1624–27 · Painting, Handscroll; ink on Korean paper

Cleared · CC0

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Scepter (Gui) with Miscellaneous Poems by Tao Qian (365–427 CE) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Scepter (Gui) with Miscellaneous Poems by Tao Qian (365–427 CE)

Unrecorded maker

1122 or later · Jade, translucent white jade

Cleared · CC0

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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.