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
333 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
350 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 298 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.
Cliffs of West Street, New York
Joseph Pennell (d. 1926)
1908 · Sandpaper ground and aquatint, touched with ink
In copyright
live
Egypt and Nubia, Volume III, No. 26, Cairo, Looking West
Louis Haghe (d. 1885)
1848 · Print, color lithograph
Cleared · CC0
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.
[Dilapidated Pool Hall on West Street, New York City]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1934 · Film negative
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.
[Lower West Street]
Berenice Abbott (d. 1991)
1936 · Gelatin silver print
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.
West Street, New York
Alfred Mosher Butts (d. 1993)
ca. 1931 · Blueprint process on gray paper
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.
[126-130 West Street, Manhattan]
Berenice Abbott (d. 1991)
1930s, printed 1938 · Gelatin silver print
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.
West Street
Saul Berman (d. 1975)
1935–43 · 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.
West Street, New York
Mortimer Borne (d. 1987)
1949 · Drypoint
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.
West Street
Aaron Siskind (d. 1991)
1950, printed ca. 1951 · Gelatin silver print
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.
West Street
Aaron Siskind (d. 1991)
1950 · Gelatin silver print
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.
West Street
Aaron Siskind (d. 1991)
1950, printed ca. 1951 · Gelatin silver print
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.
West Street
Aaron Siskind (d. 1991)
1950, printed ca. 1951 · Gelatin silver print
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.