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
100 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
307 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion (d. 1780)
ca. 1770–72 · Outer case: glass and gold set with diamonds, pearls, emeralds, and rubies; Inner case: gold; Dial: white enamel with black painted Chinese characters and blued steel hands; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Chinese General Guan Yu (Kan’u)
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Ivory
Cleared · Public Domain
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Guan Yu Seated (Chinese God of War)
Katsushika Hokusai (d. 1849)
18th–19th century · Ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Guan Yu, Chinese God of War
Katsushika Hokusai (d. 1849)
19th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Zhūgě Liàng and Guān Yǔ (孔明・関羽図鐔)
Unrecorded maker
mid-19th century · Iron, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)
Cleared · Public Domain
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.