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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: John Snow on March 01, 2018, 06:10

Title: Emojis copyright
Post by: John Snow on March 01, 2018, 06:10

I have been rejected several times in shutter and fotolia images by trademark. Images are similar to these:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-photo/emoji-head- (https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-photo/emoji-head-)…

However, if you search the word "emoji" in Shutterstock or Fotolia, you receive hundreds of thousands of results.

My question is: can these types of images be uploaded or not?

Title: Re: Emojis copyright
Post by: namussi on March 01, 2018, 07:20

Is the problem copyright or trademark issues?

They can be very different

My question is: can these types of images be uploaded or not?

I think you answered that yourself here:

However, if you search the word "emoji" in Shutterstock or Fotolia, you receive hundreds of thousands of results.

Title: Re: Emojis copyright
Post by: niktol on March 01, 2018, 09:02

it's a copyright issue
http://wiki.gettyimages.com/smiley-face/ (http://wiki.gettyimages.com/smiley-face/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiley_Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiley_Company)
needless to say, human reviewers and bots can be overzealous, just to be on the side of caution.