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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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 56,233 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Piece"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Five Pound Piece: Victoria (obverse); Una (reverse) by William Wyon, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Five Pound Piece: Victoria (obverse); Una (reverse)

William Wyon (d. 1851)

1839 · Coins, gold

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Unrecorded maker

c. 1391–1353 BCE · Sculpture, limestone

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Unrecorded maker

c. 1391–1353 BCE · Sculpture, limestone

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Unrecorded maker

c. 1391–1353 BCE · Sculpture, limestone

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
The Witch (Night Piece) by Jan van de Velde II, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Witch (Night Piece)

Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)

1626 · Print, engraving

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Piece by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piece

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
Five Pound Piece: Victoria (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (reverse) by Benedetto Pistrucci, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Five Pound Piece: Victoria (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (reverse)

Benedetto Pistrucci (d. 1855)

1887 · Coins, gold

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.