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OpenPlate

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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  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "Lead pencil"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind by Adolph von Menzel, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind

Adolph von Menzel (d. 1905)

1893 · Drawing, graphite (carpenter's pencil), with stumping

Cleared · CC0

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Study for "The Hireling Shepherd" by William Holman Hunt, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for "The Hireling Shepherd"

William Holman Hunt (d. 1910)

1851 · Drawing, graphite

Cleared · CC0

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Sarah Bernhardt Reclining on a Divan, Reading by Georges-Jules-Victor Clairin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sarah Bernhardt Reclining on a Divan, Reading

Georges-Jules-Victor Clairin (d. 1919)

c. 1885–1890 · Drawing, Graphite with lead white heightening

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Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India by Captain Linnaeus Tripe, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India

Captain Linnaeus Tripe (d. 1902)

1858 · Photograph, salted paper print, albumenized, from calotype negative

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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.