The Smiley Company and its FRIVOLOUS lawsuits

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For legal reasons everything in this video is my opinion, a citation of others and their claims, i'm making no legal claims. All images and media used in this video were used under fair use/'fair dealing' (Criticism, review and reporting) and the video is not monetized - making it non-commerical.

Sources:
Smiley Website:
https://smiley.com/pages/our-story#:~....
Smiley Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smi...
THE ORIGINS OF THE SMILEY FACE AND HOW IT BECAME A COUNTER-CULTURAL SYMBOL:
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/smiley...
Yahoo Finance; How A Missed Trademark Filing Resulted In The $500 Million Smiley Face For One Family:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/missed...
Smiley’s CEO wants to turn the emoji’s godfather from a licensing biz into a global brand:
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/...
SmileyWorld's CEO Nicolas Loufrani on plagiarism, the school market and a push for more toys:
https://web.archive.org/web/201604042...
History’s ‘oldest smile’ found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey
https://www.timesofisrael.com/history...
The Smiley Face Was Invented for Corporate America
   • The Smiley Face Was Invented for Corporate...  
One of the many lawsuits, this one lawsuit has 136 defendants
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/flo...
Emoji TMs: an emotional journey:
https://www.worldipreview.com/contrib...



The lawsuit posts I cite:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/...
https://www.justanswer.co.uk/us-law/n...
https://www.justanswer.co.uk/law/mpg8...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/...
  / what_should_i_do  
https://www.justanswer.co.uk/law/mi91...
https://www.justanswer.co.uk/law/ms9k...

Big shouts out to the guys over at reddit.com/r/pre1926smiley for their help finding old newspaper clippings
https://www.newspapers.com/article/th...
https://www.newspapers.com/article/th...
https://www.newspapers.com/article/pr...
https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?us...
https://www.newspapers.com/article/ed...




Music: None because it was muted in the edit and I don't want to go re-add it