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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403
349 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
1 of 2 providers answered live. 3 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris: View of St. Cloud and Mount Calvary taken from Pont de Sêve
Thomas Girtin (d. 1802)
1802 · Print, softground etching and aquatint, printed in brown
Cleared · CC0
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Twenty Views of Paris and Environs: View of St. Cloud and Mount Calvary taken from Pont de Sêve
Thomas Girtin (d. 1802)
1802 · Print, soft-ground etching with bistre wash
Cleared · CC0
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A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris: View of St. Cloud & Mount Calvary taken from Pont de Sêve
Thomas Girtin (d. 1802)
1802, printed 1810 or after · Print, softground etching and aquatint printed in brown, hand-colored with watercolor
Cleared · CC0
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.