Are we allowed to use some emojis that were inserted in an app from Apple’s iPhone keyboard and import the result into Final Cut Pro adding other effects to the footage and posting it on YouTube?

Keep at it then!

The Copyright for your video should always be at the beginning or end credits of your video:

©year by Your Name (or Your Company Name [or both])

for example:

©2019 by F•X Mahoney | Sight-Creations (my d.b.a.) — it only needs to appear once and it doesn't have to be on the screen long (mine are usually about 1 second). It's just a "tag". It needs to be IN your video.

😎 I don't see the same problem you do. I'm saying: Go for it. Apple's EULAs are almost all the same from Apple Loops, Jam Packs, Motion Templates, everything I've seen (and again — I cannot find anything about the use of emoji on Apple's site anywhere.) As far as I know: Apple doesn't go after its users. Period. As an argument in your defense (for using them in your video): Emoji, on Apple machines, are provided as a Typeface with a specific "character set". Typefaces are not copyright. Anyone can make a Typeface of any "font family" ever made. I used to do this back in the 80's and 90's. As long as the artwork is your own*, the generated typeface is your property. That accounts for typefaces by Adobe, ITC, and many other font foundries copying each other (every foundry has a Garamond, Futura, etc...). The letterforms themselves cannot be copyrighted. If Emoji are provided as a font, then they are letterforms. They are in common use with specific meaning. Even the "pile of poop" (💩). Now if you were to just copy the emoji characters from Apple Color Emojis and build your own font — and sell it as your own — then you'd be in a heap of trouble.

Also, I hardly think Apple would have put this up:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207861

If they didn't want you to use them in your videos.

And you may find some comfort with this article:

http://ideas.dissolve.com/tips/how-to-get-emojis-in-your-projects

there's a section on "Do you need to license emoji."

*By artwork, fonts are created with "vector" shapes. There is an infinite variety of ways in which the outlines of character shapes can be created. It's like fingerprints. As long as you manually create the shapes yourself — even if it's a dead ringer for another person's font, it's your artwork and you have those rights of ownership. But you cannot copyright the actual forms of the letters if you understand the distinction. You cannot copyright the letter 'i' in such and such a font, but you can copyright WHAT you did to create that letter i.

Apple’s specific emojis are copyrighted in most of the world.

That being said, in the US at least, “Fair Use” clauses in the copyright law allow for certain uses. For example using it in educational material for a not-for-profit school would be OK, using it for critique would be OK, but using it as your company logo or in company marketing would not be okay.

For more information, look into the laws of your country.

Of note, open-source emoji exist, some of which look very similar to Apple’s

I'm really sorry to hear that and I apologize for leading you on. This really surprises me. It sounds like a "blanket" response and they didn't really review anything. Everybody else in the world will use them without thinking about it (****, some people don't write in anything BUT emoji), but since *you* asked, they got to send you their pre-packaged response letter. (And now you have to comply.) Now, I think, I'd really like to see somebody take this issue to the Supreme Court. I'm now very interested in what their response would be.

The really weird thing about *that* font — I didn't think anything would ever come of it. It's butt-ugly. It was just "practice", but I put it up because it was really different than anything else (at the time). It got "picked up" by a contributor to MacWorld magazine and all of a sudden... it was "legitimized" ("Cheap Laser Fonts" http://fxmahoney.com/resume/macworld1087p87p89.png). If you look around, you can find a lot of knockoffs... Sometimes I just don't "get" what some people are going to like... Maybe you can imagine, how stunned I was to see it on TV!

Now if you read that article, there is mention of two fonts I made back then: Calligraphic and Times Fractions. They were shareware, so I'm not sure if that made them commercial or not (shareware is based on contributions to basically "keep up the good work" and not so much a purchase of a product). Anyway, those fonts were "resident" inside the printer. My fonts basically rearranged some of the letters to create a different effect. I didn't explicitly "copy" the character "programming" (PostScript). The software I used allowed for "composite characters". Copyright infringement? Possibly. But they only had value to those individuals who had access to the specific hardware (LaserWriter/LaserWriter Plus); everybody know which fonts they actually were; etc... I never heard anything from anyone about it — and it was published right there in black and white for everyone to read. Of course the 1980's were the "wild west" where computers and software were concerned. Sometimes it seems like it's a new world every day... and it just keeps getting more complicated.

Emoji Crack looks like a decent app!

... and basically what I said: put the credits in the video! [It should have been enough for whatever emoji you used.]

At least you are conscientious enough to go through the trouble! 99.9% of the world wouldn't even bother.

Good luck with your videos! Knock 'em dead! (I'm gettin' old... I don't even know if you can say that anymore... LOL)

You're dating yourself...LOL. Me too. I started with a Timex/Sinclair 1000; BASIC, machine language !!!! (I absolutely LOVED the z80). When IBM went with the Intel 8088 (what an mediocre chip!) I went to Apple IIe. Also BASIC and machine language. When the Mac came around - BASIC and Pascal, then C... I never could stand C++. To this day I think it was junk. I had already "invented" my own object oriented programming inside C. I could also use it to write Assembly language (I was writing low level "drivers" for MIDI applications.) Then the internet went public and I switched over to Java (first!) then Javascript, then PHP... That's about where I stopped, although I did pull off an adaptation of a Perl script once. I wish I could bring myself to spend some time with ObjC... I have a couple of things I'd really love to have for Motion, but I just cannot bring myself to dive in. It's worse (to me) than C++.

I'll drop you a line — I'd like to see what your video is about.

Happy New Year! Thanks for the wish — may you have the same!

Fox

Emojis are provided by Apple, Inc., and they are part of the Unicode Character set. They're kind of universal. If there were an issue with transfering them from one device to another - I'm sure Apple would have slapped some kind of DRM on them. I certainly don't believe or expect than any specific company can "own them". Also, Apple's general usage policies usually run in the vein: you can use their provided material on any devices you own. I don't think you have much to worry about.

HTH

There is almost no chance anyone from Apple legal will see this thread. This page might be a start for finding the answers you want

https://www.apple.com/legal/

or here

https://www.apple.com/legal/contact/rights-permissions.html

You can insert emojis anywhere you can edit text, in any app.

Type: Control - Command - Spacebar.

This will call up the Character Viewer app.

Find your emoji and double click on it. It will be inserted at the text cursor.

Dismiss the Character Viewer (or keep it open if you want to add more)

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