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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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Hank Williams"3 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Vessel with mythological scene by Metropolitan Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter (d. 800)

600–800 CE · Ceramic, slip

Cleared · Public Domain

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Clarinet in B-flat by Hawkes & Son, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clarinet in B-flat

Hawkes & Son

1878 · Ebonite, nickel-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.

Hank Williams

Daniel Faust (d. 9999)

1989, printed 2013 · Inkjet print

In copyright

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1. Pin the work

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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.