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

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Courtesan Reading a Letter by Teisai Hokuba, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Courtesan Reading a Letter

Teisai Hokuba (d. 1844)

early 1800s · Painting, two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters by Suzuki Harunobu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters

Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770)

1770 · Print, color woodblock print

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Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers by Kitagawa Utamaro, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers

Kitagawa Utamaro (d. 1806)

c. 1801–2 · Print, Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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