Big Law
A Texas App Developer Sues Apple For Copyright Infringement Over Multiracial Emojis
An app developer has sued Apple for copyright infringement, alleging that the company started making emoji with different skin tones years after she developed her own application that did the exact same thing.
As a third-party developer, Katrina Parrott was the first to put out diverse emoji through her own app, iDiversicons, in 2013. The black, Houston-based entrepreneur was inspired to create multiple skin tones for emoji after her daughter lamented she couldn’t properly represent herself on keyboards.
Parrott had no technical experience when she took on her project, but as a former NASA contract worker in logistics, she knew how to put together a team.
