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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.

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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

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

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1 of 2 providers answered live. 4 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Birds on Plum Branches"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Birds on Plum Branches by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Birds on Plum Branches

Unrecorded maker

1700–1750 · Print, Multicolor woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Still Life with Birds and Fruit by Giovanna Garzoni, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Still Life with Birds and Fruit

Giovanna Garzoni (d. 1670)

c. 1650 · Drawing, watercolor with graphite, heightened with lead white

Cleared · CC0

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Bird on a Flowering Branch by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bird on a Flowering Branch

Unrecorded maker

1100s · Painting, album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Sparrows on Blossoming Plum; A Sage with Tiger; Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch by Kano Tan’yū, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum; A Sage with Tiger; Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Kano Tan’yū (d. 1674)

1661 · Painting, Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and slight color on silk

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.