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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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Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

    265 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 3 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "The magician, disguised as a Brahman, vi"3 records

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Fragmentary Relief by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragmentary Relief

Unrecorded maker

9th–10th century · Stone

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as the Kumano Pilgrim Jissaku, actually Taira no Shigemori by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as the Kumano Pilgrim Jissaku, actually Taira no Shigemori

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 (d. 1792)

1785 (Tenmei 5), 11th month · Left sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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President Martin Van Buren by Mathew B. Brady, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

President Martin Van Buren

Mathew B. Brady (d. 1896)

1855–58 · Salted paper print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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