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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 Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 181 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Another Impossible Task"10 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) by Cleveland Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Cleveland Painter

ca. 460–450 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Temperance (Temperantia), from "The Virtues" by Philips Galle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Temperance (Temperantia), from "The Virtues"

Philips Galle (d. 1612)

ca.1559–60 · Engraving; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Young Virgin by Francisco de Zurbarán, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Young Virgin

Francisco de Zurbarán (d. 1664)

ca. 1632–33 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mace (Gada) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mace (Gada)

Unrecorded maker

17th century · Steel, gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Tame Magpie by Alessandro Magnasco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Tame Magpie

Alessandro Magnasco (d. 1749)

ca. 1707–8 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Another Impossible Task by Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Another Impossible Task

Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut (d. 1872)

1854 · Salted paper print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Reconstruction and Re-consecration of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls under Pope Pius IX by Giuseppe Bianchi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reconstruction and Re-consecration of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls under Pope Pius IX

Giuseppe Bianchi (d. 1877)

1865 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Fortune Teller by Robert Loftin Newman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fortune Teller

Robert Loftin Newman (d. 1912)

by 1894 · Oil on canvas

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.

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Painter of London D 14

ca. 420–410 BCE · Terracotta

In copyright

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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.

Obstruction

Man Ray (d. 1976)

1920/1961 · 63 wooden coat hangers

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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