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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

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

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

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Sickle sword by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sickle sword

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1307–1275 BCE · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Unrecorded maker

2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE · Bronze, ivory

Cleared · Public Domain

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Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1480–1500 · Walnut and elm, partly veneered and inlaid with different woods, ivory, bone (camel?) and pewter; covered in silk velvet not original to the armchair

Cleared · Public Domain

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Adam and Eve with Charles I and Henrietta Maria by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adam and Eve with Charles I and Henrietta Maria

Unrecorded maker

after 1634 · Canvas worked with silk and metal thread; tent and couching stitches

Cleared · Public Domain

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Book cover by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book cover

Unrecorded maker

after 1651 · Silk and metal thread on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mantel clock with alarm by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner (d. 1770)

case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70 · Case: tortoiseshell backed with brass leaf, pearwood veneered with rosewood; and partly gilded silver; Movement: gilded brass and steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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By Authority. Persons and Property Protected by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Authority. Persons and Property Protected

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

November 24, 1785 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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By Authority. Persons and Property Protected by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Authority. Persons and Property Protected

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

November 24, 1785 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Triumfa España en las Americas (The Triumph of Spain in the Americas) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Triumfa España en las Americas (The Triumph of Spain in the Americas)

Unrecorded maker

late 18th century · Cotton, block printed

Cleared · Public Domain

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Protective Pendant by Lower Niger Valley caster, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Protective Pendant

Lower Niger Valley caster

15th–19th century · Copper alloy

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.

Ȯkyeame poma (royal spokesperson's staff) with stool, chain, and crossed swords

Asante-Akan artist

ca. 1930s · Wood, gold foil

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.

Lynch Law in America

Cameron Rowland (d. 9999)

2021 · Painted steel and plastic

In copyright

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