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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.

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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

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

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

Results for "Nautilus shell"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Nautilus Cup by Cornelis Jansz van der Burch, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Nautilus Cup

Cornelis Jansz van der Burch (d. 1615)

1607 · Metalwork, Silver-gilt, nautilus shell

Cleared · CC0

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Nautilus Reading Lamp by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Nautilus Reading Lamp

Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (d. 1902)

c. 1899–1902 · Metalwork, bronze, leaded glass

Cleared · CC0

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Turned Armilla by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Turned Armilla

Unrecorded maker

c. 1500 BCE · Metalwork, bronze, wrought

Cleared · CC0

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Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents by Severo da Ravenna, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents

Severo da Ravenna (d. 1543)

c. 1510–20 · Sculpture, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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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.