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
89 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
Clevelandlive
346 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. 1 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "June 23rd–26th, plate 53 from "Les Image"1 record

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.

June 23rd–26th, plate 53 from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), including 'Images des Fêtes Mobiles' (Images of Moveable Feasts from the Christian Calendar)

Jacques Callot (d. 1635)

1636 · Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

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.