3/17/2023 0 Comments Kakaotalk emojiThe industrial official said, “Before this, they repeatedly just hung on to their position saying that it is hard to judge the contents that have not done with legal judgement yet as an infringement of copyright, but I am glad that Kakao revised their specific criterions,” and added “Since the atmosphere of the importance of copyright for contents and creations and its value have been prevalent, it is necessary to manage them strictly.Whether it’s a Facebook post, a tweet, or a photo, the general understanding of web and digital content used to be that it lives forever. In addition, they will discontinue sales of contents that are already selling after a fine review if they cause any similar problems. Kakao is planning not to allow to sell the contents that do not meet these criterions on Kakao Talk. Not only the trademarks registered in IPO, but also in case of using well known others’ names, trademarks for the name of emojis or illustrators, they decided to consider it as an act of unfair competition. Other than this, the clause for the contents that invade trademark rights were prescribed. As the dispute grew the illustrator admitted his plagiarism, and the emojis was taken off the market in two months. He had been criticized for retracing the character and its look from the original work. Prior to this in 2017, ‘Mushman’ emoji is one of the representative cases that has been embroiled in plagiarism that it copied ‘Death note’, which is well known intellectual property in Japan. It is literally targeting the works criticized for ‘Drawing over another’, tracing. Rotoscoping is a technique that after filming a person’s movements with camera and transcribes each frame. It is also same to the uses of the original contents with ‘Rotoscoping’ technique. Quoting the existing contents such as cartoons, movies, and drama or reminiscence of similar concepts will be taken as infringement of copyright. They also prepared separate clauses and set criterion for ‘Parody’. Besides in case of an expropriate of works such as characters, pictures, images, fonts, and sound sources, when characters, motions, compositions, sequences, and expression method are substantially similar, it will be considered as infringement of copyright. However, due to this incident its sales have been discontinued.ĭue to the revision of the guidelines, the criterion for the contents invading copyright has been tightened up. The happy day emojis has caught popularity since one of the BTS members has enjoyed it. An official from Kakao explained that “Japanese illustrator Yuki Kanai raised doubts about plagiarism debate and complained.” They subdivided the plagiarism related clauses that previously only explained ‘Contents that have a possibility of infringement of copyrights of others’ products or plagiarism debates.’ This follow-up action was for a popular ‘Ddingdong’s happy day’ emojis series on Kakao Talk that doubts about plagiarism from ‘Super high spirits cat’ emojis by Japanese illustrator Yuki Kanai was raised. Besides simple expropriate of the emojis, similar characters, compositions, and motions will be considered as a copyright violation and its sales can be discontinued.Īccording to the business industries, Kakao has revised ‘Guidelines of copyright and essential ethics instruction’ with this information. Kakao Talk’s criterion of plagiarism in emojis is going to be reinforced. ‘Ddingdong’s happy day’ emojis that discontinued sales on Kakao Talk due to the plagiarism debate (Right) and ‘Super high spirits cat’ emojis by Japanese illustrator Yuki Kanai (Left)
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