No license statement?
Meme culture rejects licenses.
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#12No license statement?
I am not a lawyer, but these icons are necessarily public domain works, if we consider they are made out of geometric shapes that are too simple to be copyrighted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality). Claiming copyright on these icons would mean they are derivative works, which would mean OP violated the copyright of the original works.
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#13No license statement?
It's at the bottom of the page: https://www.streamlinehq.com/license-free
Linkware license: "You can use these assets for free in your projects, even in commercial works. All you need to do is add a link back to the Streamline Icons (www.streamlinehq.com) website."
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#15Regardless of where you stand on the 'Pepe the Frog is a hate symbol' issue, you might want to reconsider including it. The Wikipedia page¹ is fairly informative.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there is no meme about forbidden memes than this has to be legal. Yellow Smile the first meme was not patented because its creator did not considered how popular it becomes. I think every super popular meme has its similar story.
Huh? Patents have nothing to do with it, unless you were granted a license to use it then it is copyright infringement by definition. Whether they sue you over it is a different matter.
There is such a thing as a design patent that could cover something like the smiley.
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#17I might use these. I always wanted to get into making memes instead of just sharing them. These can be easily added to (rasterized) images to remix the original image, which is great. I've also wanted to birth a meme, as in, instead of just rehashing an old joke, I created the joke and it gets shared widely, sort of like some legacy that I contributed to cyberspace.
Or maybe I should just use 4chan more and try and get an image trending. That's how it's done right?
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#18No O'RLY? owl?
No Willy Wonka "Do Tell"?
No Philosoraptor?
Apparently, we are now required to add Adele to the mix.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meme culture rejects licenses.
As long as it's not a photo showing them or the loved ones, or a piece of art they created themselves. 'Meme culture' mostly seems to reject licences because it's a bother, not out of idealism.
That's a perfectly valid reason. Requiring a license for everything is pathological. Unlimited license for anything is also problematic, as you point out, but there should be some principle of balance between moral obligation and administrative overhead.
We already have corporate entities that claim ownership of particular words or colors, not because they invented them but because they laid claim to them and want to extract rents therefrom. Branding serves a rational commercial function, but when taken to extremes it begins a resemble a form of psychic territorial aggression.