Comments on post “Emoji Pool Floats”
Victor
@vriparbelli · Growth hacker, Founders
Just wondering if you thought about copyright with these products? I was researching a similar idea, but ended up discarding it because Apple actually own these emojis. In theory you could get sued. Or did you get permission?
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Matt X. Benedetto
@mattyxb · Founder, Sondre Travel
@vriparbelli Does anyone have any actual sources of this happening? I've seen similar comments around other emoji based products but have never actually seen or heard of Apple taking action.
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Victor
@vriparbelli · Growth hacker, Founders
@mattyxb Nope, haven't found any lawsuits. Just curious if the maker talked to Apple beforehand. Would suck to get struck by lightning...
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Andy Dent
@andydentperth · Founder + CEO, Touchgr.am
@vriparbelli discussion and links https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepr... also see https://github.com/emojidex/emoj... but don't directly copy the Apple ones because yes they are copyright. The IDEA of any given emoji is open but exact images are copyright unless open source as mentioned in the links earlier.
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Alexi Roy
@_alexiroy · Serial Entrepreneur > AlexiRoy.com
@vriparbelli I also thought of a similar idea and did not move forward because of copyright. @andydentperth answers seems to point to discussions that prove that it is in fact illegal and you could have trouble when you scale.
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