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

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

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Results for "Preface"12 records

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Preface and Admonitions for Scrupulous Conduct by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preface and Admonitions for Scrupulous Conduct

Unrecorded maker

20th century · Ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Preface by Rai Sanyō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Preface

Rai Sanyō (d. 1832)

1817 · Portfolio, Double-leaf from a pair of folding albums; ink on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Preface to the Thousand-character Essay by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preface to the Thousand-character Essay

Unrecorded maker

20th century · Ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Preface from Shazanrō Picture Book by Tani Bunchō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Preface from Shazanrō Picture Book

Tani Bunchō (d. 1841)

1816 · Bound Volume, Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Preface to the Tripitaka by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preface to the Tripitaka

Unrecorded maker

20th century · Ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Preface from Ōkyo Picture Book by Maruyama Ōkyo, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Preface from Ōkyo Picture Book

Maruyama Ōkyo (d. 1795)

1850 · Bound Volume, accordion-style woodblock printed folding-book; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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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.

A la pintura: preface

Robert Motherwell (d. 1991)

1972 · Aquatint, lift-ground etching, and letterpress

In copyright

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Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1444 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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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.

Preface to the fourth edition

Walid Raad (d. 9999)

2012 · Single channel video high definition projection, color, silent, 12 min., 48 sec., looped

In copyright

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Preface continued from Shazanrō Picture Book by Tani Bunchō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Preface continued from Shazanrō Picture Book

Tani Bunchō (d. 1841)

1816 · Bound Volume, woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Preface to the third edition_Acknowledgment (Aiguière)

Walid Raad (d. 9999)

2014 · Clear cast urethane resin, white pigment dye

In copyright

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Calligraphy: Preface to the Anvar-i Suhaili by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Calligraphy: Preface to the Anvar-i Suhaili

Unrecorded maker

c. 1590 · Calligraphy, Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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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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