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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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "An Angel Trampling a Skeleton, from Grot"3 records

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An Angel Trampling a Skeleton, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler by Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Angel Trampling a Skeleton, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

Theodor de Bry (d. 1598)

1580–1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Wedding medallion by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wedding medallion

Unrecorded maker

17th century · Silver, parcel-gilt

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.

El libro negro del terror Nazi en Europa (The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe)

Alexander Abusch (d. 1982)

1943 · Letterpress, photographs, lithographs, linocuts (reproduced photo-mechanically)

In copyright

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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

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