Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Leptothrix inextricabilis Zanardini ex von Frauenfeld” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Leptothrix inextricabilis Zanardini ex von Frauenfeld
Artist not stated in the record

Lyngbya fuscata Zanardini in von Frauenfeld
Artist not stated in the record

Leibleinia gloeothrix Menegh. in von Frauenfeld
Artist not stated in the record

Festuca leptothrix Trin. ex Döll in Mart.
Artist not stated in the record

Microcoleus lyngbyaceus Kütz. ex Forti
Artist not stated in the record

Spirulina jenneri var. subrecta Rabenh.
Artist not stated in the record

Leptothrix lutescens var. streinzii von Heufler
Artist not stated in the record
Nereia filiformis (J. Agardh) Zanardini
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Leptothrix lurida Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record

Dichothrix penicillata Zanardini ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record
Lithophyllum papillosum (Zanardini ex) Foslie
Artist not stated in the record
Cladophora hospita Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 398771 matched · 40 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:15 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.