Skip to content
OpenPlate

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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

Your defaults

United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

Change on the terms page

2 of 2 providers answered live. 7,656 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Employed"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Conversing with a Captive, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Conversing with a Captive, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

November 15, 1779 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Lacquer Box by House of Fabergé, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lacquer Box

House of Fabergé (d. 1918)

c. 1890 · Miscellaneous, lacquer, papier-mâché, gold, diamonds

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Conversing with a Captive, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Conversing with a Captive, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

November 15, 1779 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Saint Lawrence by Tilman Riemenschneider, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Saint Lawrence

Tilman Riemenschneider (d. 1531)

1502–8 · Sculpture, lindenwood with polychromy and gilding

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Enjoying Domestic Happiness, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Enjoying Domestic Happiness, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

November 15, 1779 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Saint Stephen by Tilman Riemenschneider, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Saint Stephen

Tilman Riemenschneider (d. 1531)

1502–8 · Sculpture, lindenwood with polychromy and gilding

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Going Out in the Morning, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Going Out in the Morning, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

1779 · Etching; state before letters

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Hexafoil-Shaped Table with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hexafoil-Shaped Table with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Unrecorded maker

late 1400s–early 1500s · Lacquer, Inlaid abalone shells on black lacquer ground, applied with red lacquer on the interior

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Killing an Enemy, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Killing an Enemy, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

November 15, 1779 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
In the Palace by Zhou Wenju, The Cleveland Museum of Art

In the Palace

Zhou Wenju

before 1140 · Painting, Handscroll; ink and light color on silk

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Retiring Wounded from Battle, from "Banditti Variously Employed" by Robert Blyth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Retiring Wounded from Battle, from "Banditti Variously Employed"

Robert Blyth (d. 1784)

November 15, 1779 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Covent Garden Labourers by John Thomson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Covent Garden Labourers

John Thomson (d. 1921)

1877 · Photograph, woodburytype

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.