Emojis—those yellow smiley faces and pictographs for everything from apples to zebras—have quickly become an indispensable part of our modern communications. We take them for granted, but they actually have a long and complicated history, and IP plays a key role in their current form, and their future.
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23 October 2017 Apple has been sued by an app developer who claimed that the technology company “pretended to the world that ‘Animoji’ was original to Apple”.
23 May 2016 It’s unclear whether emojis can be protected by copyright but there may be a thin level of protection, the International Trademark Association’s annual conference has heard.