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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

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

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1 of 2 providers answered live. 256 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Cape"5 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth) by Edward Hopper, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)

Edward Hopper (d. 1967)

1929 · Drawing, Watercolor with graphite and scraping on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Bishop's Mantle (Cape) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bishop's Mantle (Cape)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1520–30 · Arms and Armor, riveted steel (some brass) rings; reinforced collar

Cleared · CC0

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Pelerine (Collar or Cape) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pelerine (Collar or Cape)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1830–1860 · Textile, Cotton, peacock feathers, guinea fowl feathers?, Gadwalls duck feathers

Cleared · CC0

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George III by Benjamin West, The Cleveland Museum of Art

George III

Benjamin West (d. 1820)

1783 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Over the Dunes, Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Charles Shackleton, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Over the Dunes, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Charles Shackleton (d. 1920)

c. 1919 · Painting, oil on canvas

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.