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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

    321 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 "On the Southern Plains"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

In the Palace by Zhou Wenju, The Cleveland Museum of Art

In the Palace

Zhou Wenju

before 1140 · Painting, Handscroll; ink and light color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Kneeling Angel by Ignaz Günther, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Kneeling Angel

Ignaz Günther (d. 1775)

c. 1760 · Sculpture, gessoed and painted wood

Cleared · CC0

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Christ Gathering Roses, Centerpiece of an Altar Cloth(?) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ Gathering Roses, Centerpiece of an Altar Cloth(?)

Unrecorded maker

early to mid-1400s · Embroidery, Linen: plain weave; silk: embroidery (split stitch)

Cleared · CC0

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Sleeveless garment by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sleeveless garment

Unrecorded maker

1800s · Garment, Bamboo beads strung together in diamond and hexagon patterns; edges in plain weave cotton

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.