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

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Memento Mori, "To This Favour" by William Michael Harnett, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Memento Mori, "To This Favour"

William Michael Harnett (d. 1892)

1879 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Queen Mab's Cave by Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Queen Mab's Cave

Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)

after 1846 · Painting, oil on fabric

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Cordelia Parting from her Sisters by Ford Madox Brown, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cordelia Parting from her Sisters

Ford Madox Brown (d. 1893)

1854 · Painting, pen and oil on paper on panel

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Noble: Richard II Standing on Ship with Shield of Arms (obverse); Ornamental Cross with Lis Terminals (reverse) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Noble: Richard II Standing on Ship with Shield of Arms (obverse); Ornamental Cross with Lis Terminals (reverse)

Unrecorded maker

1377–1399 · Coins, gold

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And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green by Arthur Rackham, The Cleveland Museum of Art

And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green

Arthur Rackham (d. 1939)

1908 · Drawing, pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board

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The Vine by Samuel Palmer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Vine

Samuel Palmer (d. 1881)

1852 · Print, etching

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Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand by François Dumont, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand

François Dumont (d. 1831)

c. 1793 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount

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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.