Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
299 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
377 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 247 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
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.
[The Colossal Head of Bavaria in the Nave of the Crystal Palace]
Philip Henry Delamotte (d. 1889)
1854 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
In copyright
liveNo 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.
An Evening with Rodolph Bial's Orchestra, Koster & Bial's Concert Hall (sheet music cover)
Edward Schuberth & Co. (d. 1900)
1879 · Lithograph with tint stone
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Metropolitan Concert Hall, Broadway, 41st Street and 7th Avenue, New York
Hopcraft & Co. (d. 1900)
ca. 1880 · Color lithograph
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Chickering Hall à New York, from "Moniteur des Architectes"
Georges Garen (d. 1913)
1888 · Etching and engraving
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Spring Morning in the Heart of the City
Childe Hassam (d. 1935)
1890, reworked 1895–99 · Oil on canvas
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Demolition of St. James's Hall, Interior
Sir Muirhead Bone (d. 1953)
1906 · Drypoint; published state
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Concert Hall
Sybil Andrews (d. 1992)
1929 · Color linocut on Japanese paper
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Concert Hall
Sybil Andrews (d. 1992)
1929 · Color linocut
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Concert at the Metropolitan
Effim H. Sherman (d. 1964)
ca. 1940 · Etching
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Liverpool XI
Candida Höfer (d. 9999)
1968 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Easy Edges
Frank Gehry (d. 2025)
1970 · Corrugated cardboard and masonite
In copyright
live1. 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.