Everything (probably isn't) okay

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Holy shit you are ignorant of fair use laws and wow just please stop.

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That's not at all what fair use is. fair use is for criticism, education, and similar non profit works. That's why you can make memes out of it, because you're not charging anyone to look at it and is often altered anyway. Charging for it makes it an issue. And I'm not saying like, they have to take it down or anything. It's just a dick move.

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If it isn't copywritten then there isn't much else to say.

Yup. Sure is a shame.

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A parody is not held to the same copyright standards.

And neither is a meme. When something is a long-time meme, it's generally considered as free use. Especially when you're not using it for money.

If you really want to be certain, ask the artist of it if they care.

That's not what I'm talking about. Like, I'm not the guy's lawyer, this doesn't affect me longterm. It's just a skeevy business practice to take without asking you know? And I don't know why you brought up it not being used for money, because the emote is like...on sale. and if you mean the original image, he does sell merch with it. I'll sleep fine at night about this, it just makes me respect the company a bit less. At the end of the day I'm talking less legal terms and more ethics, but that discussion isn't going anywhere.