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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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 4 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "The third suitor strikes the devotee’s d"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Serpent labret with articulated tongue by Mexica artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

Mexica artist(s)

1325–1521 CE · Gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy by Paullus Schiller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy

Paullus Schiller (d. 1634)

ca. 1620–30 · Case: partly gilded and partly silvered brass, copper with traces of silver, ebony, and ebony veneer; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pair-case quarter-repeating watch by John Champion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion (d. 1780)

ca. 1770–72 · Outer case: glass and gold set with diamonds, pearls, emeralds, and rubies; Inner case: gold; Dial: white enamel with black painted Chinese characters and blued steel hands; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Hunter-case pocket watch

Firm of Vacheron and Constantin (d. 9999)

ca. 1844 · Case: gold; Dial: white enamel with gold hands; Movement: brass and steel

In copyright

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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