Rights clearance desk for images
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
308 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
356 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 848 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
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.
Card 4, Gorilla, from the Animals series (N385, Type 1), issued by Spaulding & Merrick to promote Sweet F.O.B. Tobacco
Spaulding & Merrick
1889–90 · Commercial lithograph
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Card 4, Gorilla, from the Animals series (N385, Type 2), issued by Spaulding & Merrick to promote Plow Boy Tobacco
Spaulding & Merrick
1889–90 · Commercial lithograph
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Card 4, Gorilla, from the Animals series (N385, Type 2), issued by Spaulding & Merrick to promote Plow Boy Tobacco
Spaulding & Merrick
1889–90 · Commercial lithograph
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Card 4, Gorilla, from the Animals series (N385, Type 3), issued by Spaulding & Merrick to promote Echo Tobacco
Spaulding & Merrick
1889–90 · Commercial lithograph
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Trick Cards 1 2 3 4, collector card from the Trick Cards series (D82), issued by the Heydt Baking Company
Heydt Bakery Company
early 20th century · Commercial color lithograph
In copyright
live1. 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.