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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

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

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Results for "Bowl with Dragons in Waves"4 records

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Dish with Carp in Waves by Seifū Yohei III, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dish with Carp in Waves

Seifū Yohei III (d. 1914)

1893–1914 · Ceramic, Porcelain with incised designs, iron oxide, and red glaze

Cleared · CC0

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Bowl with Dragons in Waves by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Dragons in Waves

Unrecorded maker

1506–21 · Ceramic, porcelain with incised decoration and green overglaze enamel and resist enamel decoration on biscuit

Cleared · CC0

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Food Container (Gui) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Food Container (Gui)

Unrecorded maker

600–500 BCE · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Stem Cup by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Stem Cup

Unrecorded maker

1426–35 · Ceramic, porcelain with reversed underglaze blue and incised decoration

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.