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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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Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

    357 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 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Frontispiece, from "Guillaume de Nassau"2 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

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.

Frontispiece, from "Guillaume de Nassau ou la Fondation des Provinces Unies, par M. Bitaubé de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Berlin. Nouvelle édition considèrablement augmentée e corrigée, à Paris chez Prault imprierie du Roi Quai de Gêvres MDCCLXXV"

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune (d. 1814)

1775 · Etching and engraving; second state of two (Bocher)

In copyright

live
The MetSimilar

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.

Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5

John Sartain (d. 1897)

January–December 1849 · Illustrations: steel engravings, mezzotints, wood engravings, lithographs

In copyright

live
The MetSimilar

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.