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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 Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

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

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Farmer Returning Home in Autumn by Yosa Buson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Farmer Returning Home in Autumn

Yosa Buson (d. 1783)

1781 · Painting, Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk

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Reeds and Geese by Yishan Yining [Issan Ichinei], The Cleveland Museum of Art

Reeds and Geese

Yishan Yining [Issan Ichinei] (d. 1317)

1314–17 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on paper

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Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Gotenyama by Utagawa Toyokuni, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Gotenyama

Utagawa Toyokuni (d. 1825)

late 1700s–early 1800s · Painting, Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

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Portrait of Ōzora Buzaemon by Watanabe Kazan, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Ōzora Buzaemon

Watanabe Kazan (d. 1841)

1827 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

Unrecorded maker

late 1600s · Ceramic, porcelain with underglaze iron

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Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige (d. 1858)

1857 · Print, color woodblock print

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Gathering of Otsu-e Subjects by Shibata Zeshin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Gathering of Otsu-e Subjects

Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)

late 1800s · Painting, Eight-panel folding screen; ink and color on hemp

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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