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

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Results for "Tortoise box"5 records

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Lobed Mirror with a Tortoise Knob, Musician, and Phoenix by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lobed Mirror with a Tortoise Knob, Musician, and Phoenix

Unrecorded maker

late 700s · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Cigarette Case by House of Fabergé, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cigarette Case

House of Fabergé (d. 1918)

c.1885 · Miscellaneous, tan tree agate with ribbed gold mounts and interior gold cigarette restraints set with cabechon sapphire thumpiece

Cleared · CC0

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Box by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Box

Unrecorded maker

c. 1750 · Miscellaneous, tortoise shell and gold

Cleared · CC0

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Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Lady by Pierre Louis Bouvier, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Snuff Box with a Portrait of a Lady

Pierre Louis Bouvier (d. 1836)

1803 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory; tortoise-shell lining; gilt metal rings

Cleared · CC0

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Fire Screen with Shell-Matching Game by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Fire Screen with Shell-Matching Game

Unrecorded maker

c. 1870–80 · Furniture and woodwork, Gilt wood frame with embroidered silk gift cover mounted as a panel

Cleared · CC0

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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.