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In the US, rasterized font representations are not copyrightable, in contrast to vector representations. Emoji are very clearly a font, and Apple uses a raste
by emojiofficer 12y ago
In the US, rasterized font representations are not copyrightable, in contrast to vector representations. Emoji are very clearly a font, and Apple uses a rasterized format, so using Apple color emoji is fine in the US.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protect...
- bjt 12y agoThat's a leap that's far from guaranteed by the cases summarized in your link. A court or the copyright office could just as easily say "just as the latest digital outline fonts have elements that can be protected as software, emoji have elements that can be protected as visual art."
- carols10cents 12y agoBut this person's username is emojiofficer, that clearly means they're the official emoji officer and they must be right...