Thank you so much Allison, I was nervous about this video but happy of the reaction and humbled by you promoting it. :) Also I just found your Instagram, I'm finally using it! haha
Hey guys, thanks for watching! I get asked a lot where someone can get/buy my Photoshop Brushes and download my sketch grid from my videos. I've decided to make them available to my Patrons on Patreon since I just started using it to support my comics & TH-cam. 💜 patreon.com/dominickeravel
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.
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!
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.
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?
Thank you! I'm glad it helped. :) Unfortunately, fanart is illegal to sell. Almost everyone does it but they only get away with it. It's on the brand owners (nintendo etc) to send a DMCA to take down your emotes or stickers on Etsy that feature pokémon characters for example. It's unlikely that they would spend the time to take down every monetized fan art, and they may also call it free promotion to their brand. But we are all taking a bit of a legal risk by selling copyrighted characters to our clients, and streamers are taking a risk by profiting from it as Twitch emotes. ;)
Good point! Although by DEFAULT they have no right to monetize our stuff without approval / licensing. It's a huge problem atm though, too many people don't understand copyright law and steal art for NFTs, I hope they all get sued until every user becomes more aware. 👍
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 🙈
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????
Yes those companies do have the right to send a DMCA takedown to people selling fanart online, or monetizing emotes on Twitch. These emotes are a liability to the streamers because they're monetizing fanart / illegal copyrighted art, technically. It's very rare that companies scout Twitch to take down content though. But it's always a little risk that streamers take when using emotes like that in their brand. What's good to know too is that instead of sending a DMCA, companies can choose to sue for damages. That would be rare to do against a very small creator that don't make tons of money from the copyrighted art though.
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'm sorry you're dealing with this! It sucks that this type of thing happens a lot. If your terms of use are pretty clear, I think that this person breached your terms and you could probably revoke their right to use the emote completely and issue a DMCA takedown on their Twitch / Discord if they don't comply when you address the issue I'm glad you found the video useful!
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?
hi there! So by default you have and keep your copyright. What you have to make clear to your clients is the terms of use (of your license that they pay for) I suggest using the Paypal invoice. You ask them for their paypal email, and use paypal's invoice system to send your bill to them. In the "terms" section of the invoice, you can list your general terms (To be used on streaming platforms, discord, websites, cannot be resold (merch etc.) without my conscent or further deal, etc ) So buy paying the invoice they consent to these terms. On top of that you should list these same terms of use on your commission page on your website. Of course the most professional way to do this would be through a well written contract that a lawyer would make you for $2000 but a simple written agreement can suffice. ;)
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.
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.
If you buy emotes on Etsy, hopefully the artist listed their terms of agreement. But usually by buying the Etsy listing, you pay for a license to use those emotes on Twitch, Discord, TH-cam especially and without a problem! The artist still owns the copyright to the art, you're just paying for a specific license of use. So you can't use the art outside of the use you paid for. You can't put the drawing on a shirt and sell it, for example, and I'd ask the artist if you want to use the emote as a profile picture
@@DominicKeravel ohh thank you :) because i really enjoy browsing around etsy little bit more affortable then costum emotes so I hope when I pay it i wont loose them afterwards.
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?
Thank you! Late answer but I would say yes. Every single artist starts by being inspired by other more experienced artists. I think it's okay for you to take inspiration in someone's art style until you develop your own. But make sure to stay away from making your specific drawing very similar to one of their drawings in form and shape! ;)
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!
Keep in mind that your drawing is not just an emote. An emote is the use they paid a license for. If you're okay with selling the full copyrights, make sure it's a price you're comfortable with. They'll be able to put it on merch infinitely without you getting royalties from sells. On Paypal you can make them an invoice, and in Items you can write "full copyrights ownership of the design ____ " and in terms you write your terms like "I can show it in my portfolio or youtube videos as example of my work and make art in similar style" prices I've seen from twitch artists range from 60$ - 400$ for FULL rights to one drawing. It can be worth more too. Gauge how much they can sell and if the added money is worth it for you. If they're small streamers, they might not profit that much from merch and you might be ok with a lower fee and if they can sell thousands of T shirts, charge accordingly! Hope this helps a bit. I had to help a fellow artist. lol I'm making a new copyright video soon btw :)
Legally you cannot use someone's content without their permission. Someone paid the artist to get exclusivity of use on the drawing. It's not always a big deal to the copyright owners if you're just using it as a profile picture, but I'm just saying that it is "technically" illegal unless you get their permission. ;)
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.
Yes, they're all copyrighted. You'll especially get in trouble if you find emotes on google images and use them on your channel. A streamer is already using these emotes and they are in the right to strike your channel. I highly recommend you hire a little artist to make you some fresh emotes ;)
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.
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
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.
Yeah unfortunately there's almost an uncountable amount of theft of my art around Twitch and Discord. It's something we have to learn to not get upset over. It's just gonna happen with this very exposed art business. I just have a set of rules that I follow to take actions against someone, depending on how much they can affect me negatively and if it's worth my time. etc. So yeah, there's a wonderful side and a frustrating side of creating emotes on Twitch. haha
@@DominicKeravel this is a good mindset to have over it. Hopefully I don't have to experience this with my art, but if it one day happens I'll try to remember this to avoid major stress
Very informative, clear and concise video thanks for helping the community Dom!
Thank you so much Allison, I was nervous about this video but happy of the reaction and humbled by you promoting it. :) Also I just found your Instagram, I'm finally using it! haha
Thank you so much!
Hey guys, thanks for watching!
I get asked a lot where someone can get/buy my Photoshop Brushes and download my sketch grid from my videos. I've decided to make them available to my Patrons on Patreon since I just started using it to support my comics & TH-cam. 💜
patreon.com/dominickeravel
thank you so much for doing this very important work of legally protecting artists!
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.
Thank you very much!! :)
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!
I'm looking to start designing twitch emotes as part of my freelancing and this was so helpful, thank you!
Super helpful and informational video :D
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!
This video was very helpful
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.
Gg, this is super helpful!
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?
Thank you! I'm glad it helped. :) Unfortunately, fanart is illegal to sell. Almost everyone does it but they only get away with it. It's on the brand owners (nintendo etc) to send a DMCA to take down your emotes or stickers on Etsy that feature pokémon characters for example. It's unlikely that they would spend the time to take down every monetized fan art, and they may also call it free promotion to their brand. But we are all taking a bit of a legal risk by selling copyrighted characters to our clients, and streamers are taking a risk by profiting from it as Twitch emotes. ;)
I appreciate the very insightful anwser!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience!
such an informative video! thank you !
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?
I learned quite a lot! Thanks sir!
Hey man, why you got to attack Times New Roman like that? :^)
You got my sub, great video.
This was very helpful, thank you
This just randomly popped up on my feed. I have a few questions! How do we draw and publish this?
This is so helpfull, thank you!
reminder for artists to put in their tos if they are against their work being used a nfts since that's the new trend ;~;
Good point! Although by DEFAULT they have no right to monetize our stuff without approval / licensing. It's a huge problem atm though, too many people don't understand copyright law and steal art for NFTs, I hope they all get sued until every user becomes more aware. 👍
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 🙈
It's illegal. But enforcing the law around Twitch would be a lot of effort for the copyright holders so people generally get away with it
@@DominicKeravel ok thank you 🙏🏻
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????
Yes those companies do have the right to send a DMCA takedown to people selling fanart online, or monetizing emotes on Twitch. These emotes are a liability to the streamers because they're monetizing fanart / illegal copyrighted art, technically. It's very rare that companies scout Twitch to take down content though. But it's always a little risk that streamers take when using emotes like that in their brand. What's good to know too is that instead of sending a DMCA, companies can choose to sue for damages. That would be rare to do against a very small creator that don't make tons of money from the copyrighted art though.
You are so cool! This was very helpful
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'm sorry you're dealing with this! It sucks that this type of thing happens a lot. If your terms of use are pretty clear, I think that this person breached your terms and you could probably revoke their right to use the emote completely and issue a DMCA takedown on their Twitch / Discord if they don't comply when you address the issue
I'm glad you found the video useful!
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?
hi there!
So by default you have and keep your copyright. What you have to make clear to your clients is the terms of use (of your license that they pay for) I suggest using the Paypal invoice. You ask them for their paypal email, and use paypal's invoice system to send your bill to them. In the "terms" section of the invoice, you can list your general terms (To be used on streaming platforms, discord, websites, cannot be resold (merch etc.) without my conscent or further deal, etc )
So buy paying the invoice they consent to these terms. On top of that you should list these same terms of use on your commission page on your website.
Of course the most professional way to do this would be through a well written contract that a lawyer would make you for $2000 but a simple written agreement can suffice. ;)
@@DominicKeravel this helps so much. Thanks!
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.
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.
If you buy emotes on Etsy, hopefully the artist listed their terms of agreement. But usually by buying the Etsy listing, you pay for a license to use those emotes on Twitch, Discord, TH-cam especially and without a problem! The artist still owns the copyright to the art, you're just paying for a specific license of use. So you can't use the art outside of the use you paid for. You can't put the drawing on a shirt and sell it, for example, and I'd ask the artist if you want to use the emote as a profile picture
@@DominicKeravel ohh thank you :) because i really enjoy browsing around etsy little bit more affortable then costum emotes so I hope when I pay it i wont loose them afterwards.
@@laurahimesekai you should be safe to use them on twitch and discord for good, but look for terms of agreement in their description if there's any ^^
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?
Thank you! Late answer but I would say yes. Every single artist starts by being inspired by other more experienced artists. I think it's okay for you to take inspiration in someone's art style until you develop your own. But make sure to stay away from making your specific drawing very similar to one of their drawings in form and shape! ;)
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’m also drawing them on my iPad, so how do I export them on it?
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!
Keep in mind that your drawing is not just an emote. An emote is the use they paid a license for. If you're okay with selling the full copyrights, make sure it's a price you're comfortable with. They'll be able to put it on merch infinitely without you getting royalties from sells. On Paypal you can make them an invoice, and in Items you can write "full copyrights ownership of the design ____ " and in terms you write your terms like "I can show it in my portfolio or youtube videos as example of my work and make art in similar style" prices I've seen from twitch artists range from 60$ - 400$ for FULL rights to one drawing. It can be worth more too. Gauge how much they can sell and if the added money is worth it for you. If they're small streamers, they might not profit that much from merch and you might be ok with a lower fee and if they can sell thousands of T shirts, charge accordingly! Hope this helps a bit. I had to help a fellow artist. lol I'm making a new copyright video soon btw :)
Hello sir. Can I use twitch emote pictures on dota 2 as my ign picture?
Legally you cannot use someone's content without their permission. Someone paid the artist to get exclusivity of use on the drawing. It's not always a big deal to the copyright owners if you're just using it as a profile picture, but I'm just saying that it is "technically" illegal unless you get their permission. ;)
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.
Great question Misty! I might try to unwrap that in a future video! :)
would i get in trouble by using a pic off of google for a emote ?
Yes, they're all copyrighted. You'll especially get in trouble if you find emotes on google images and use them on your channel. A streamer is already using these emotes and they are in the right to strike your channel. I highly recommend you hire a little artist to make you some fresh emotes ;)
@@DominicKeravel thank you 😊
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.
Could u check the Instagram. I want to talk about emotes . Pricing
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
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
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.
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.
Yeah unfortunately there's almost an uncountable amount of theft of my art around Twitch and Discord. It's something we have to learn to not get upset over. It's just gonna happen with this very exposed art business. I just have a set of rules that I follow to take actions against someone, depending on how much they can affect me negatively and if it's worth my time. etc. So yeah, there's a wonderful side and a frustrating side of creating emotes on Twitch. haha
@@DominicKeravel this is a good mindset to have over it. Hopefully I don't have to experience this with my art, but if it one day happens I'll try to remember this to avoid major stress