
San Francisco
Unknown
ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype
Cleared · Public Domain
liveRights 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
226 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
282 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 836 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

San Francisco
Unknown
ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype
Cleared · Public Domain
live
San Francisco
Charles Meryon (d. 1868)
1855–56 · Etching on steel; third state of three
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.
San Francisco, 1854
Thomas S. Sinclair (d. 1881)
1854 · Lithograph with two tint stones
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.
San Francisco Guide & Souvenir
Palace Hotel News Stand, San Francisco California
August 1904 · Illustrations: photomechanical process
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.
[Demonstration, San Francisco]
Dorothea Lange (d. 1965)
1933 · Gelatin silver print
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.
[Automobile Accident, San Francisco]
Unknown
1953 · Gelatin silver print with applied media
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.
Chinese Cemetery–San Francisco
Robert Frank (d. 2019)
1956 · Gelatin silver print
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.
Bus, San Francisco
Elaine Mayes (d. 9999)
1970 · Gelatin silver print
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.
Black power, black art ... and the struggle continues : political imagery from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
San Francisco State University
1994
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.
Anonymous, San Francisco
Katy Grannan (d. 9999)
2008 · Inkjet print
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.
Anonymous, San Francisco
Katy Grannan (d. 9999)
2010 · Inkjet print
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.
Anonymous, San Francisco
Katy Grannan (d. 9999)
2010 · Inkjet print
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.