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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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  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

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

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Duck in Flight by Shikibu Terutada, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Duck in Flight

Shikibu Terutada

mid-1500s · Painting, fan painting mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Ducks in Flight by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ducks in Flight

Unrecorded maker

c. late 1800s · Print, etching and aquatint

Cleared · CC0

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Pan Lang (Han Rō) by Shikibu Terutada, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pan Lang (Han Rō)

Shikibu Terutada

mid-1500s · Painting, Fan-shaped painting mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Hanshan and Shide (Kanzan and Jittoku) by Shikibu Terutada, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hanshan and Shide (Kanzan and Jittoku)

Shikibu Terutada

mid-1500s · Painting, Fan-shaped painting mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

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.