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

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Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike by Yosa Buson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike

Yosa Buson (d. 1783)

1700s · Painting, hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

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Bill by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bill

Unrecorded maker

c. 1480 · Arms and Armor, steel, wood haft

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Brocaded velvet cushion cover with crescents by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Brocaded velvet cushion cover with crescents

Unrecorded maker

1525–75 · Velvet, velvet, brocaded: silk, gilt- and silver-metal thread, and cotton

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The Ruby Range, Nevada by Thomas Moran, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Ruby Range, Nevada

Thomas Moran (d. 1926)

1879 · Drawing, watercolor, gouache and graphite

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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery by Edgar Degas, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

1879–80 · Print, etching, softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint

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Halfcrown: Elizabeth I (obverse); Crowned Shield of Arms (reverse) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Halfcrown: Elizabeth I (obverse); Crowned Shield of Arms (reverse)

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1592–95 · Coins, gold

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Folio 18 from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karamachand: Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and defeats him by throwing stones in his mouth (recto); Jatayu approaches Rama and Lakshmana who are wondering where Sita could be (verso) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Folio 18 from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karamachand: Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and defeats him by throwing stones in his mouth (recto); Jatayu approaches Rama and Lakshmana who are wondering where Sita could be (verso)

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1744–45 · Painting, Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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