Rights clearance desk for images
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403
308 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
1 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Battle of Ravana and Jatayu, from Chapters 50 and 51 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of Valmiki's Ramayana (Rama’s Journey); folio from the "Burnt" Ramayana
Unrecorded maker
c. 1605 · Painting, Gum tempera and ink on paper
Cleared · CC0
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Loincloth
Unrecorded maker
1425–1500 (radiocarbon date, 92.3% probability) · Garment, cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots
Cleared · CC0
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The Temple of Edfu: The Door of the Pylon
John Frederick Lewis (d. 1876)
1850 · Drawing, Watercolor (wash and point of brush work) and gouache and graphite
Cleared · CC0
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Queen Adelaide's Beech
James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness (d. 1881)
before 1864 · Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative
Cleared · CC0
live1. 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.