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

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Results for "Faces in American Art"6 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Tall Clock by Tiffany & Co., The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tall Clock

Tiffany & Co. (d. 1837)

c. 1880 · Furniture and woodwork, mahogany, teak with dial faces of gilded and patinated metal, glass

Cleared · CC0

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A Mountain Stream by Julie H. Beers, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Mountain Stream

Julie H. Beers (d. 1913)

1870 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Sofa by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sofa

Unrecorded maker

c. 1820 · Furniture and woodwork, wood with painted and gilded decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Canteen with a Katsina-like Face by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Canteen with a Katsina-like Face

Unrecorded maker

1890 · Ceramic, ceramic, slip

Cleared · CC0

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History of a Picture No. 2: The Public by Frank Wilcox, The Cleveland Museum of Art

History of a Picture No. 2: The Public

Frank Wilcox (d. 1964)

c. 1929 · Drawing, pencil and wash heightened with white

Cleared · CC0

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Niagara Falls by Moonlight by Frederic Edwin Church, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Niagara Falls by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900)

probably 1856 · Drawing, graphite and white gouache

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1. Pin the work

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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.