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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 Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Panel with dragon, phoenix, and peonies by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel with dragon, phoenix, and peonies

Unrecorded maker

16th century · Silk and metallic-thread tapestry (kesi)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves by Ogata Kōrin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves

Ogata Kōrin (d. 1716)

c. 1700 · Ceramic, Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip

Cleared · CC0

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La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 67 (recto) by Matthias Mignerak, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 67 (recto)

Matthias Mignerak

1605 · Woodcut

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Genio C. Scott by Eastman Johnson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Genio C. Scott

Eastman Johnson (d. 1906)

1859 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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The Daoist Immortal Liezi by Kano School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Daoist Immortal Liezi

Kano School (d. 1559)

ca. 1606 · Set of four sliding-door panels; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Black-Gloss Mesomphalic Phiale (Libation Bowl): Apotheosis of Herakles by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Black-Gloss Mesomphalic Phiale (Libation Bowl): Apotheosis of Herakles

Unrecorded maker

200s BCE · Ceramic, ceramic

Cleared · CC0

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The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation by James Barry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation

James Barry (d. 1806)

1792–1801 · Etching with engraving; second state of five

Cleared · Public Domain

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Wedding Fan by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Wedding Fan

Unrecorded maker

mid-1800s · Miscellaneous, Copper alloy; satin weave silk; silk and metal thread embroidery; and paper

Cleared · CC0

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Hamilton's Floating Battery Moored at the End of Sullivan's Island the Night Before They Opened Fire upon Fort Sumter by Alma A. Pelot, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hamilton's Floating Battery Moored at the End of Sullivan's Island the Night Before They Opened Fire upon Fort Sumter

Alma A. Pelot (d. 1869)

April 1861 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank by Basavana, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank

Basavana (d. 1600)

c. 1600 · Painting, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Vitellius tazza by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vitellius tazza

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th century · Gilded silver

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

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Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1654 · Etching; first state of three (NH)

In copyright

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