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

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Seal with Two-Horned Bull and Inscription by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal with Two-Horned Bull and Inscription

Unrecorded maker

c. 2000 BCE · Seals, steatite

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Seal with Unicorn and Inscription by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal with Unicorn and Inscription

Unrecorded maker

c. 2000 BCE · Seals, possibly kaolin

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

918–1392 · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

918–1392 · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

918–1392 · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

918–1392 · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

1100s · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal with Unicorn and Inscription by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal with Unicorn and Inscription

Unrecorded maker

c. 2000 BCE · Seals, steatite

Cleared · CC0

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Seal by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal

Unrecorded maker

1100s · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Seal of Doge Michele Steno by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal of Doge Michele Steno

Unrecorded maker

1400–1409 · Metalwork, repoussé gold over a core of wax and resin

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Seal with Reclining Qilin by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seal with Reclining Qilin

Unrecorded maker

1736–95 · Stone, tianhuang stone

Cleared · CC0

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Inkstone in the Shape of a Roof Tile with Seal Script Characters by Workshop of Jian Guzhai, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Inkstone in the Shape of a Roof Tile with Seal Script Characters

Workshop of Jian Guzhai

1700s–1800s · Stone, She stone

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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.