Emotes based on series?

[nannaana]

I’ve been thinking about adding an emote that’s somewhat modified from a screenshot from One Piece anime. Do I need the permission of the author of One Piece or the organisation that holds the rights to the series to get the emote accepted (Justification)?

[Techno]

Yes, if you do not own the rights to the asset, or have written permission to use it, do not use it.

[nannaana]

So, where’s the line? When does it become your asset and not be theirs anymore? Do for example all the pikachu emotes have the proper rights? or WutNaruto that’s clearly straight from the series

[m4ngo]

to quote an older post about something very similar

@Slikrick

one issue with anime related stuff is that we don’t know what is copyrighted and what isn’t. Some stuff is hand drawn, some stuff is perfectly allowed by the creators, some stuff isn’t. This is why we have a DMCA process for any copy-written material to be taken down from the service. We try and catch most things before they occur, but it is twitch and even TWITCH allows these things in their emotes for the partners that they pay, so we also have to look at them

[nannaana]

okay, I’ll just have to try and see if they’ll approve it