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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

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

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Results for "Silhouette of a man"4 records

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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

Cleared · CC0

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An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged" by William Leroy Jacobs, The Cleveland Museum of Art

An Old Man Had Come out of One of the Houses, from "Not Honorably Discharged"

William Leroy Jacobs (d. 1917)

1904 · Drawing, Black and white gouache and black chalk on paper

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Landscape with Travelers Attacked by a Gang of Robbers by Jan van Londerseel, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with Travelers Attacked by a Gang of Robbers

Jan van Londerseel (d. 1625)

1602 · Print, engraving

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Nagakubo (Station 28) from the series Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido by Utagawa Hiroshige, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Nagakubo (Station 28) from the series Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige (d. 1858)

1835 or 1836 · Print, color woodblock print

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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.