Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
317 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
350 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen (d. 1807)
ca. 1775–79 with later alterations · Oak, pine, walnut, mahogany, and cherry veneered with hornbeam (partially stained), tulipwood, walnut, holly and maple (both partially stained), boxwood, mahogany, and other woods; red brocatelle marble; gilt bronze; iron, steel, and brass
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Répresentation Exacte du Grand Collier en Brillants des Srs. Boëhmer et Bassenge
Nicolas Antoine Taunay (d. 1830)
ca. 1785 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Female figure from an obu (house of images)
Igbo artist
Late 19th century · Wood, pigment
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo 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.
Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci (d. 1519)
ca. 1506–8 · Pen and brown ink; soft black chalk or charcoal (recto); soft black chalk or charcoal (verso)
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Figure riding a quadruped
Dogon or Tellem blacksmith (?)
16th–19th century · Wood (Burseraceae family), applied organic materials
In copyright
live1. 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.