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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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Where this page got its records

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

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

  • 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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1 of 2 providers answered live. 3 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Lions in the Tower"3 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Sovereign of Thirty Shillings: Edward VI Enthroned (obverse); Shield of Royal Arms on Rose (reverse) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sovereign of Thirty Shillings: Edward VI Enthroned (obverse); Shield of Royal Arms on Rose (reverse)

Unrecorded maker

1550–53 · Coins, gold

Cleared · CC0

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Banner with a Quartered Royal Arms of Spain and the Madonna and Child by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Banner with a Quartered Royal Arms of Spain and the Madonna and Child

Unrecorded maker

1500s · Velvet, red and dark brown velvet, embroidered; fringe

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of Roberto Castiglione by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Roberto Castiglione

Unrecorded maker

early 1600s · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.