Emote Licenses

Clear license options for personal use, creator projects, commercial digital use, and open licenses.

Every emote on myEmotes stays owned by its creator. The selected license only explains how other people may use that emote after downloading it.

If you are uploading your own work and feel unsure, choose the most restrictive option you are comfortable with. You can always move to a broader license later.

Pick The Right Scope

Start with personal use if you only want free chat and server use. Choose creator, extended, or open licenses only when you intentionally want broader reuse.

Credit Matters

Some options require visible attribution. If a license says "with credit", the creator should be named wherever the emote is used or listed.

Ownership Stays Put

A license never transfers authorship. Reuploading, reselling, repackaging, or claiming someone else's work as your own is never allowed unless the license says so explicitly.

Personal Use Only

For private chats, free communities, and non-monetized use. No credit required.

Best for creators who want their emotes used casually, but do not want them tied to paid access, business use, or broader redistribution.

  • Allowed: personal chats, free Discord servers, free Slack workspaces, and other non-monetized community use.
  • Credit: not required, but always appreciated.
  • Not allowed: reselling, reuploading to asset libraries, bundling into paid packs, merchandise, or using the emote in monetized creator products.

Personal Use with Credit

For private chats and free communities, with visible creator credit required.

This option keeps usage limited to personal and non-monetized spaces, while making attribution mandatory.

  • Allowed: personal chats, free community servers, and free social use.
  • Credit: required in a clear and reasonable way, for example in a credits panel, profile section, or asset listing.
  • Not allowed: claiming authorship, reuploading as your own, paid bundles, merch, or monetized creator use.

Creator & Stream Use

For streams, videos, creator communities, and subscriber spaces. No credit required.

Use this license when you want your emotes to be usable in normal creator workflows, including monetized channels and supporter communities, without opening the door to resale.

  • Allowed: Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Discord subscriber servers, channel memberships, livestream overlays, and creator-branded community spaces.
  • Credit: not required.
  • Not allowed: standalone resale, redistribution in packs, white-label reuse, or merchandise based on the emote itself.

Creator & Stream Use with Credit

For streams, videos, and creator communities, with visible creator credit required.

This is the attribution-based version of Creator & Stream Use.

  • Allowed: monetized streams, creator communities, supporter perks, and normal channel branding.
  • Credit: required in a visible and reasonable location, such as a credits command, profile section, or channel information page.
  • Not allowed: reselling, republishing as your own work, asset pack redistribution, or merchandise rights.

Extended Digital Use

For personal, creator, and business-related digital use. No credit required.

This is the broadest proprietary option on myEmotes. It is meant for digital use across communities, creators, brands, and commercial online projects without transferring ownership.

  • Allowed: personal use, creator use, brand channels, commercial websites, apps, community products, and monetized digital experiences.
  • Credit: not required.
  • Not allowed: selling the emote itself as a standalone asset, repackaging it into marketplaces, or implying authorship or exclusive rights.

Extended Digital Use with Credit

For broad digital and commercial use, with visible creator credit required.

This mirrors Extended Digital Use, but keeps attribution mandatory.

  • Allowed: monetized digital use across creator, community, and business contexts.
  • Credit: required anywhere the emote is presented, listed, or documented in a reasonable public-facing way.
  • Not allowed: resale as a standalone download, redistribution in bulk asset packs, or removing the creator's authorship.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Open license that allows remixing and commercial use with attribution.

This is the standard CC BY 4.0 license.

  • Allowed: sharing, remixing, adaptation, redistribution, and commercial use.
  • Credit: required under the Creative Commons attribution rules.
  • Good fit for: creators who want broad reuse while keeping clear authorship.

CC0 1.0 Universal

Public-domain style dedication with no attribution requirement.

This is the standard CC0 1.0 dedication.

  • Allowed: copying, remixing, redistribution, and commercial use without asking for permission.
  • Credit: not legally required, though still welcome.
  • Good fit for: creators who intentionally want the fewest restrictions possible.

Need rights that go beyond the listed options, such as merchandise, paid asset packs, white-label redistribution, or exclusive use? Please contact the creator directly before using the emote that way.

For the official legal text of Creative Commons licenses, see creativecommons.org/licenses .