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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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Where this page got its records

  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

Change on the terms page

Both institutions were unreachable, so this page is showing the sealed sample taken on 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z. Nothing below is current.

Results for "Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight"6 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Sealed fallback, not live

Both museums failed to answer, so these are the committed sample records dated 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z. They are real records, but they are not what the institutions are publishing right now.
A Jaguar by Edward Kemeys, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Jaguar

Edward Kemeys (d. 1907)

1885 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar
Jaguar Pendant, an unrecorded Chiriquí maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jaguar Pendant

Unrecorded maker

11th–16th century · Gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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The MetSimilar

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.

Jaguar

Anna Hyatt Huntington (d. 1973)

1906–7; cast 1926 · Bronze

In copyright

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The MetSimilar
The Red Kerchief by Claude Monet, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Red Kerchief

Claude Monet (d. 1926)

c. 1868-73 · Painting, oil

Cleared · CC0

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Water Lilies (Agapanthus) by Claude Monet, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Water Lilies (Agapanthus)

Claude Monet (d. 1926)

c. 1915-26 · Painting, oil

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?), an unrecorded Costa Rican maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?)

Unrecorded maker

c. 300 BCE-600 CE · Stone

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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