Twitch Emotes Copyrights: Everything You Should Know

Hey I have a question. Is it allowed to use as example Spider-Man as an emote? (I draw it, maybe in my style) I see so many streamers that have emotes from movies, games etc and I don’t know if they have a license for use it or is it allowed to use those things as emotes?
Thanks for the help 🙈

hi Dom, thanks a lot for the informative video. Would you happen to know if it is OK to use in-game sprites as emotes?

Could u check the Instagram. I want to talk about emotes . Pricing

Thank you so much!

thanks for this! I wanted to try creating and selling twitch emotes and subs badges and wanted to learn all about it as much as i can considering i dont know what goes behind selling and creating emotes. im bored and kinda lost my passion on drawings, designs and other stuff that im doing related to arts. I wanted this motivate me to get back to what i love and hopefully discover a whole new world. Before this, I thought what could possibly go wrong when you sell emotes and sub badges. This really open my mind and kinda made me feel stupid for thinking that theres nothing that could possibly go wrong. thanks for this, this is really informative!

If i buy in etsy emotes then i can get emote ban? :( Im totally confused. I only want to update my stream profile after some year and I really like her work.

This just randomly popped up on my feed. I have a few questions! How do we draw and publish this?

Hey, very good video! does somebody know if you can create stylized art of characters from games? I don't know if that is legal. So I mean that a game has a character and they own the right to that character obviously, but you create an emote of that character which has its own style and looks different than from the game, but it is still supposed to be recognizable.

I wanna make free emotes for my friend on twitch but idk if i can, because my original idea is making fnaf 1 emotes, do I need to credit those?

i was searching up about emotes and copyrights but not the one i was looking for but also good to know! what i was looking for was,yes emotes but what if the images are from companies like disney or something,like i do see alot of baby yoda,disney princesses,,does disney and or other companies own the rights to those emotes????

Could you do a video on streamers/artists "parodying" an emote with their vtuber or selfsona in them instead of the OG person? How do the rights work with that? Is it considered a meme at that point? Is it not? I want to know if I should be allowing people to commission me for these types of emotes. But considering that pepe is monetized all over twitch despite the OG artist being nowhere to be found on the platform it's probably more complicated than a black and white answer.

reminder for artists to put in their tos if they are against their work being used a nfts since that's the new trend ;~;

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! <3 It's pretty hard to find useful information Ö_Ö

Hello! May I ask, someone asked me to buy the right to the emotes, do I need to prepare some statement or something? How to price it? Sorry for the grammar!

My question is, if I commission an artist to draw Zelda-themed sub badges for me, will either of us get in trouble? I'm pretty sure, if anybody gets in trouble, it'll be me, but I care about the artist a lot, as they're a friend of mine, so I wouldn't want anything to happen to them either.

would i get in trouble by using a pic off of google for a emote ?

You are so cool! This was very helpful

This is so helpfull, thank you!

I learned quite a lot! Thanks sir!

So in a way you're basically saying is better to just steal someone else's emoji because if you create your own you most likely might be fucked since someone else is going to steal yours

I'm looking to start designing twitch emotes as part of my freelancing and this was so helpful, thank you!

Thank you so much for this video. I sell emotes and beside the normal emote size i offer a higher quality one for social media. And i just had someone who took my emote, didnt buy the higher size and let it redraw 1 to 1 for free by a friend. i am so mad.... :(

I feel sorry for everyone working in the twitch emotes industry. It seems to be hard to claim your rights.
Thank you for informing and spreading awareness for more unexperienced artists!
To be honest, I sometimes wonderr what makes art stolen if it's not exactly copy pasted. For example there are many similare face expressions for emotes. For example one person draws the same facial expression on a racoon that he/she has seen on a fox before. It might look very similar on one Hand but on the other Hand many small streamer's emotes have the same realisation of the same expressions. When would you call that stolen? I don't know.

such an informative video! thank you !

You got my sub, great video.

wow i've seen those emotes everywhere wtf i never knew they stole ur shit sucks to hear man hopefully things are going well for ya

This was very helpful, thank you

Im confused about how to copyright my art. As an artist can I just write my own copyright terms? Do I have to download a script or form for clients to sign? Or is it just a text you send to them?

Hello sir. Can I use twitch emote pictures on dota 2 as my ign picture?

thank you so much for doing this very important work of legally protecting artists!

Very informative video! May I ask a question? I am drawing my own emotes, but I am loving the specific style of an emote artist, am I allowed to use the style as an inspo?

God that sounds awful, dealing with thieves just using your emotes without even paying, and I'm sure its bad for a popular emote artist like yourself.

You know it sucks cause I’ve asked a few artists on fiverr about copyright and trademarked material for emotes and sub badges, and every one of them has skated around the use of using copyright stuff. What I’m referring to is like movie characters or game characters and such and it seems the artist aren’t exactly transparent with the risks of using copyright emotes or badges. I’m glad I’ve asked before making any purchases otherwise I’d have been out of money for thinking it was okay to use copyright or other ip since so many other streamers do.

This video was very helpful

Great video as always dom!!
I actually became super interested in Copyright law in college so its nice to see you make content about it~
Love ya!

Thanks a lot for the video. I just started out drawing emotes/badges for clients and it helps me a lot. I have one question: What are the copyright rules for emotes that picture game caracters, movie caracters and so on. Am I even allowed to create and sell them?

Ur voice is strangely soothing..this is good info.. if I was gonna get something for merch I wouldn't pay them for the price of an emote. That's kinda wrong. I have a gaming channel and a twitch.

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Super helpful and informational video :D

Hey man, why you got to attack Times New Roman like that? :^)

Gg, this is super helpful! <3

Very informative, clear and concise video thanks for helping the community Dom!