Copyright & IP Policy

This policy is part of our Terms of Service. It explains how copyright and other intellectual-property complaints about content on PlayEmojis are made and handled.

Players write much of what appears in the game — puzzles, hints, guesses, nicknames, room names. For that content we act as a host: we store and transmit it at the direction of the player who wrote it, we do not pre-review it, and we address specific complaints through the process below. Nothing in this policy assumes editorial responsibility for player content or creates a duty to monitor it.

1. A note on what a guessing game is

Puzzle answers routinely name films, shows, songs, games and public figures, because naming things is what a guessing game is for. A title or a name used as the subject of a puzzle is a reference, not a copy of a protected work and not a claim of affiliation. Complaints should identify content that actually reproduces protected material or otherwise infringes rights — not the mere fact that a puzzle is about something.

The same goes for emoji themselves: emoji are standardized characters, and the glyphs you see during play are rendered by your own device from its own system fonts. Gameplay does not distribute any vendor's emoji artwork, and "emoji" is used throughout the Service as the ordinary word for those characters, not as anyone's brand.

2. Reporting copyright infringement

If you are a copyright owner (or an agent of one) and believe content on PlayEmojis infringes your copyright, send a takedown notice to our designated copyright agent:

[email protected]

For your notice to be effective under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), it must include:

1. identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed;
2. identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough information for us to locate it (the exact URL of the puzzle, room or page);
3. your name, address, telephone number and email address;
4. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
5. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and
6. your physical or electronic signature.

We process valid notices expeditiously and may remove or disable access to the identified material. We may forward the notice, including your contact details, to the player who posted the material. We do not commit to any fixed response time, and this process creates no duty owed to any complainant.

If you are in the European Union, you may instead use our Report illegal content form, which collects the elements a notice needs there.

3. Counter-notices

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include: identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the authority of the federal district court for your district (or, if you are outside the United States, of the courts named at the foot of this page) and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice; and your signature. Where the law provides for it, we may restore material ten to fourteen business days after receiving a valid counter-notice, unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action about it.

4. Misrepresentation

Anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that content is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages — including costs and attorneys' fees — under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Weaponized or bad-faith notices are also a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy.

5. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts and players of repeat infringers. A repeat infringer is a player who has been the subject of two or more valid infringement notices that were not resolved by a valid counter-notice or retraction. We keep records of notices and outcomes for this purpose, and we reserve the right to restrict or terminate any account after a single notice where we consider that appropriate.

6. Trademarks, publicity and other rights

Complaints that content misuses a trademark, a person's name or image, or another non-copyright right can be sent to the legal address at the foot of this page, or filed through the Report illegal content form. Include where the content is, what right is affected and why. We review such complaints under the same discretionary enforcement framework as section 4 of the Terms.

7. Our own IP

Use of the PlayEmojis name, logo and content is covered by section 6 of the Terms; streaming and recorded gameplay are covered by the standing permission on the streamer page.

Who operates PlayEmojis

PlayEmojis is operated by Latent Software LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. That entity is the party you are contracting with, and the party responsible for the personal data described in our Privacy Policy.

Write to us at [email protected] for anything about the game, [email protected] for legal notices, and [email protected] for questions about your data.

These pages supplement the operator's general Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which apply to all of its products and are incorporated here by reference. If they conflict with the PlayEmojis documents, the PlayEmojis documents control for PlayEmojis.