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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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  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

  • Clevelandlive

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

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1 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "School of Fishes"6 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Tray for Sewing Tools with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tray for Sewing Tools with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Unrecorded maker

1800s · Lacquer, lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

Cleared · CC0

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The Offering by Charles W. Hawthorne, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Offering

Charles W. Hawthorne (d. 1930)

c. 1915 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Fisherman's Joy by Qian Gu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Fisherman's Joy

Qian Gu (d. 1578)

1572 · Painting, Handscroll; ink and light color on paper

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Casually Created on a Spring Day by Murase Taiitsu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Casually Created on a Spring Day

Murase Taiitsu (d. 1881)

c. 1825–81 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Water Village by Wen Boren, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Water Village

Wen Boren (d. 1575)

1570 · Painting, handscroll; ink and light color on paper

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Landscape by Narihide, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape

Narihide

1500s · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · CC0

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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.