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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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,093 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Mary Albert, from the Actors and Actress"2 records

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Mary Albert, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes by Allen & Ginter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary Albert, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter

ca. 1888 · Albumen photograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar

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.

Lunt & Fontanne (Alfred Lunt, 1892–1977, and Lynn Louise Fontanne, 1887–1983)

Mary Sully (d. 1963)

ca. 1920s–40s · Colored pencil, wax crayon, ink, and graphite on paper

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

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