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

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

https://fullscreen.com/2016/09/12/emojis-on-youtube/

If you use Apple Emoji, I'm relatively sure (99%) that their licensing will be the same as the custom content that comes with FCPX, Motion, iMovie (Titles, Generators and Transitions) as well as the Apple Loops the come with Logic, etc...

In general, for YouTube monetized videos: **Be Professional**. Credit all content not your own. Stick a © by YOU *IN* the video. If there are any questions that arise, YouTube is off the hook and more likely to support you than any claimant that might be trying to cause trouble. So, credit line: Emoji by Apple, Inc. or Emoji courtesy of Apple, Inc.

(You can't get away with putting credit and copyright information in the video description — it has to be burned in the video.)

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

Part 2:

Now I said I've had some experience with this, specifically with YouTube. You wouldn't believe some of the cr** I've had to deal with. There was one guy: he published his video with an Apple Loop. Must have been the first one to do so. HE violated the user agreement (the Apple Loop was unaltered and whole in his video... the EULA fine print says: that's not allowed). He tried to claim I was violating HIS copyright! (Apple didn't even come into it — they definitely never went after this jacka$$.) Well back in those days I made mistakes, the most glaring one was, like "everybody else" I didn't want to "mark up" my videos with credits. I was an idiot. Credits are the professional thing to do — and now, even if I don't have to, I still credit everything.

I've had EMI, BMI and Sony (at various times) go after me for MIDI sequences that I "voiced" in Logic and they would claim I was using actual recordings that belonged to them. I find it somewhat complementary that they would think that my little MIDI sequences were a copyright infringement, but then I found out one other time, when I used an OPEN SOURCE piece that they were going to try and come after me anyway!!! For something that was not possibly theirs. The Recording Industry is the WORST about going after people for copyright. These are the guys you most need to worry about.

Then there are those I've actually won. Credits were the reason. This was one of them:

https://youtu.be/WNtyb_muGbc

Clearly credits the author, performer and source(s) of recording. The claimant ("TuneCore") backed off. (Most of these guys are just being schmucks.)

Anywho... FWIW...

Bottom line, if you accidentally step in it... you generally are given an out before any actual legal action is taken, especially as a YouTube user. I expect Amazon will be similar or they will take YouTube's position for the content. Have a backup plan. Tell your lawyer to take a hike (nicely... just in case you need him... LOLOL. ← do I need a license for this? Do I need a license for the arrow??)

Give me a break. 🖖🏻 LLAP.

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)

😀👍

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.