The emoji was created in Japan in 1999, but it was based on the smiley face image which was created by Harvey Ball from Worcester, Mass. in the 1960's. The smiley face became a universal symbol because it was intentionally not trademarked or copyrighted. The idea of the smiley face was left in the public domain and thus inadvertently inspiring the creation of the emoji many years later...
I once heard a radio interview with Harvey Ball and was impressed that he intentionally did NOT copyright the original smiley face image to promote more use.
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William Schaeffer
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