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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 Metlive

    296 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 29 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Water Tower, San Francisco, California"8 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Tutocanula, or El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California by Carleton E. Watkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tutocanula, or El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California

Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)

1865–66 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Multnomah Falls, Oregon by Carleton E. Watkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)

1867, printed later · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Strait of Carquennes, from South Vallejo by Carleton E. Watkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Strait of Carquennes, from South Vallejo

Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)

1868–69 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallons by Carleton E. Watkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallons

Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)

1868–69 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California by Jules Tavernier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California

Jules Tavernier (d. 1889)

1878 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point by William Keith, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point

William Keith (d. 1911)

1879 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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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.

Snoqualmie Falls

Grafton Tyler Brown (d. 1918)

1886 · Oil on board

In copyright

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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.

Water Tower, San Francisco, California

Ansel Easton Adams (d. 1984)

1961, printed 1974 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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