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Academic Book About Emojis Can’t Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of Copyright (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] qwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Of course I assume the scientist contacted the lawyers who know the copyright laws better than me, but shouldn't this be under fair use as providing commentary? It's not like it's just an album of emojis, it's a book that describes them in great detail, which is transformative.

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

Article mentions that.

Now, my first reaction to this is that using the emoji and stickers and whatnot in the book seems like a very clear fair use situation. But… that requires a publisher willing to take up the fight (and an insurance company behind the publisher willing to finance that fight). And, that often doesn’t happen. Publishers are notoriously averse to supporting fair use, because they don’t want to get sued.