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
826 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
272 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 688 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Studies of fairies with a pair of hands (possibly representing the Opening of Pandora's Box)
William Lock the Younger (d. 1847)
1784 · Graphite and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and white gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Whistler with the White Lock
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1876–79 · Print, etching and drypoint
Cleared · CC0
live
Annie
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on tan chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); fourth state of seven (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Portrait of Whistler with the White Lock
Mortimer Menpes (d. 1938)
c. 1880 · Print, drypoint
Cleared · CC0
live
Little Arthur
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on off-white chine mounted on off-white wove paper; fourth state of four (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
The Title to the French Set
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on tan chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); only state (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Title to the French Set
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on gray chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); only state (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Whistler with the White Lock
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1879 · Drypoint, printed in black ink on greenish laid paper; only state (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Whistler with the White Lock
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1879 · Etching and drypoint; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on ivory tissue-weight Japan
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1876, reworked 1885 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
live
The Yellow Room
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
ca. 1883–84 · Watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Whistler with the White Lock
Thomas Robert Way (d. 1913)
1890–1900 (?) · Lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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.