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Internet memes proliferate online. Often, cats are involved. In using images taken from creative works or private life, memes show how copyright law intersects with issues of internet use and privacy. Memes are the units that transmit ideas, behaviors, styles and usage within a culture through a variety of media, like nursery rhymes passed down from parent to child.

Know Your Meme is a crowdsourced database of popular memes, owned by a company that created many early memes. Meme histories are tracked from first appearance, providing a reference of viral memes.

Image-based memes involve, primarily, an image created by somebody. American copyright law gives creators the exclusive rights of reproduction, modification, distribution, performance, and display.

The viral spread of a meme infringes on theses protections as the original image is modified and then displayed, distributed and reproduced when posted and reposted. However, within copyright law exists the doctrine of fair use , which allows for use of a copyrighted work in the creation of new work without permission, as long as the use fits within certain parameters.

A legal finding of fair use takes into account the following factors:. There is no official definitive answer for whether a use can be considered fair, as every case must be judged on its own merits , but there are some types of use generally allowed under fair use, including criticism and commentary, parody, journalism, education, and research.

When it comes to memes, an important issue is the amount used of the original work. In First World Problems: A Fair Use Analysis of Internet Memes , Ronak Patel says the amount of the work used in the meme probably supports the meme creators if the image was a still of another work, usually making up a small percentage of the original, but not if the original work was a photograph in which the whole of the work was being used.

Stacey M. Dawkins acknowledged this point in when he observed that internet memes, unlike genes, were actively manipulated by human creativity to appear different from the original. However, Constantin Films did not sue anyone, so it is unknown whether the parodies might have been considered fair use. When memes or the subjects of a meme are used for commercial purposes without permission, the meme creator may sue, as the effect of the commercial use on the market value of the original meme usually prevents a finding of fair use.

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You can also share with one of Imgflip's many meme communities. How can I customize my meme? You can move and resize the text boxes by dragging them around. You can customize the font color and outline color next to where you type your text. You can further customize the font in the More Options section, and also add additional text boxes. Any other font on your device can also be used. Note that Android and other mobile operating systems may support fewer fonts unless you install them yourself.

You can insert popular or custom stickers and other images including scumbag hats, deal-with-it sunglasses, speech bubbles, and more.

Opacity and resizing are supported. You can rotate, flip, and crop any templates you upload. You can draw, outline, or scribble on your meme using the panel just above the meme preview image.

You can create "meme chains" of multiple images stacked vertically by adding new images with the "below current image" setting. You can remove our subtle imgflip. Can I use the generator for more than just memes? Can I make animated or video memes? Do you have a wacky AI that can write memes for me?