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AlCalavicci
03/27/21 12:45:28 AM
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Like if I had an idea for a t-shirt and used an emoji on the shirt, would I get sued by someone?

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Eevee-Trainer
03/27/21 12:51:29 AM
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Yes. This is tied to why different devices have different appearances for their emotes.

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AlCalavicci
03/27/21 12:52:42 AM
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Eevee-Trainer posted...
Yes. This is tied to why different devices have different appearances for their emotes.

So what if I recreated the emoji through a graphic design program? I guess I'd have to make it noticeably different enough?

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Tyranthraxus
03/27/21 12:53:39 AM
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The actual art is protected. The unicode behind it is not so you can make your own emojis if you want to replace existing emojis.

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AlCalavicci
03/27/21 12:55:15 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
The actual art is protected. The unicode behind it is not so you can make your own emojis if you want to replace existing emojis.

Not sure I understand what you mean by this

If I wanted to feature the laughing emoji, for example

I probably couldn't use it in the way that it currently looks on Apple/Android, and would have to recreate it with enough differences so that it was not exactly the same, I'd assume?

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Eevee-Trainer
03/27/21 12:55:56 AM
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AlCalavicci posted...
So what if I recreated the emoji through a graphic design program? I guess I'd have to make it noticeably different enough?
Pretty much. Though I wouldn't try to use an existing emoji as a basis and just alter it; that's sketchy at best. Just make your own depiction from scratch, make it look like how you think it should look like.

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FL81
03/27/21 12:56:50 AM
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AlCalavicci posted...
Not sure I understand what you mean by this

If I wanted to feature the laughing emoji, for example

I probably couldn't use it in the way that it currently looks on Apple/Android, and would have to recreate it with enough differences so that it was not exactly the same, I'd assume?
https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/
Note how it has several different, presumably copyrighted, art works

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AlCalavicci
03/27/21 12:58:06 AM
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FL81 posted...
https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/
Note how it has several different, presumably copyrighted, art works

Right.. So I would want to make a design that was my own but that people understood was the laughing emoji. Good reference here, thanks

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