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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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 20,076 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Work and Rest"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Lance Rest by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lance Rest

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1550 to 1575 · Steel, gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Wrist Rest by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Wrist Rest

Unrecorded maker

1736–95 · Jade, jade

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Wrist Rest by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wrist Rest

Unrecorded maker

18th–19th century · Ivory

Cleared · Public Domain

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Charles Poërson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Charles Poërson (d. 1667)

c. 1640 · Painting, oil on wood

Cleared · CC0

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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.

Wrist rest decorated with gourds

Jin Xiya (d. 1979)

1922 · Bamboo with intaglio carving

In copyright

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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto) by Luc-Olivier Merson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto)

Luc-Olivier Merson (d. 1920)

c. 1879–80 · Drawing, gray and graphite wash, with scraping and traces of black chalk

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Wrist rest decorated with landscape

Jin Xiya (d. 1979)

1923 · Bamboo carved in relief

In copyright

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Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs by Jean-Siméon Chardin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs

Jean-Siméon Chardin (d. 1779)

c. 1734 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Wrist rest decorated with long beans

Jin Xiya (d. 1979)

1925 · Bamboo with intaglio carving rubbed with ink

In copyright

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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); Sketch of a Sphinx [?] (verso) by Luc-Olivier Merson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); Sketch of a Sphinx [?] (verso)

Luc-Olivier Merson (d. 1920)

c. 1879–80 · Drawing, gray and graphite wash, with scraping and traces of black chalk

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Wrist rest decorated with bamboo

Jin Xiya (d. 1979)

1929 · Bamboo with intaglio carving

In copyright

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The MetSimilar
The Departure of Jacob by François Boucher, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Departure of Jacob

François Boucher (d. 1770)

c. 1755 · Drawing, Pen and brown-black ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash, with black chalk on cream laid paper

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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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.