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
1522 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
313 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 4,418 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Cover or Hanging
Unrecorded maker
mid to late 15th century · Pieced of 6 fragments of dark blue silk warp-float faced 3/1 broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wall Hanging
Unrecorded maker
1850–1899 · Embroidery, Silk, cotton; plain weave, embroidery, tambour chain stitch
Cleared · CC0
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Cover or Hanging (?)
Unrecorded maker
15th century · silk; metal;
Cleared · Public Domain
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Chintz Bed Cover or Hanging with a Japanese-inspired Pattern, Right Half
Unrecorded maker
1700–1750 · Textile, Cotton: drawn resist, painted mordants, dyed (2 reds, 2 blues, purple, brown, green)
Cleared · CC0
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Bed Cover or Wall Hanging
Unrecorded maker
17th century · Cotton, silk; plain weave, embroidered, originally quilted
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bed Cover (Palampore)
Unrecorded maker
early 18th century · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hanging or Bed Cover (Palampore)
Unrecorded maker
early 18th century · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Bed Cover (Palampore)
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Cotton; plain weave, mordant painted and dyed, resist-dyed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bed Cover (Palampore)
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Cotton; painted and resist dyed
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Cover or Hanging
Unrecorded maker
18th century (?) · Silk
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Hanging or Bed Cover
Unrecorded maker
late 18th century · Cotton; pounced and painted
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Valance or Bed Hanging
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Cotton; embroidered in silk
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.