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Meme copyright©

Bow Vernon · 2016-12-13T19:33:27

Hi all, sorry if it sounds like a stupid question, but I'm totally n00b when it comes to law and legal stuffs, sooo..... I have a plan to make an RPG game, and the characters would be of several races: the "pepe" (the green frog meme) race, and the "feel guy" (the white "feel" meme guy) race are some of them. It would also heavily use pop-art (memes) in its contents. Now, I'm afraid that once it gets released (hopefully), I would get sued for violation of copyright. I thought memes are not copyrighted yet, but I'm not sure. Would I need to take some kind of legal stances before using memes in my games? :unsure:

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Started by Bow_vernon December 12, 2016 04:34 PM

10 comments, last by conquestor3 7 years, 6 months ago

fleabay

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December 13, 2016 08:46 AM

kek!

OMG, I had to google that and... MIND BLOWN!!!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kek

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cult-of-kek

I feel like I just licked a toad.

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂<←The tone posse, ready for action.

conquestor3

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December 13, 2016 07:33 PM

Kek isn't copyrighted. Actually a steam game I have has all of it's badges set to kek references, and a trading card referencing people who transcended reality by sitting on their computers until they died.

"Make america great again: The trump presidency" on steam also has emoticons/cards very similar, but somewhat different to pepe.