Courtesan Reading a Letter
Teisai Hokuba (d. 1844)
early 1800s · Painting, two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper
Cleared · CC0
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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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1. Pin the work
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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
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