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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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Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 13 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas"4 records

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Lidded bowl with ballgame scenes by Río Blanco artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lidded bowl with ballgame scenes

Río Blanco artist

500-900 CE · Ceramic, slip, paint

Cleared · Public Domain

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Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas relief of tigers) by Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas relief of tigers)

Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (d. 1915)

c. 1860 · Photograph, albumen print from collodion negative

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Head of a Rain God by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a Rain God

Unrecorded maker

10th–11th century · Fossiliferous limestone

Cleared · Public Domain

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Bell by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bell

Unrecorded maker

900–1520 CE · Gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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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.