Can CUSTOM SF Symbol images be used on websites?

Hi, from my understanding Apple's SF Symbols can only be used in apps but not on websites or app icons etc. Can custom symbol images generated using the template files provided by the SF Symbols app and then edited with apps like Sketch and Figma be used on websites? The following images are the custom symbols I designed.

Please let me know if I'm free to use them on websites, images, etc.

Answered by endecotp in 742918022

That depends on whether your custom symbol is, in law, a "derived work" from Apple's copyright symbol.

If you've taken an Apple symbol and make a small adjustment to it - for example, putting a / though their $ symbol, as you seem to have done in your example, then I'm sure that does count as a derived work and cannot be used.

On the other hand, if your custom symbol is all your own work - and the only connection with Apple's symbols is, for example, that you've designed your symbol to look right when used in combination with the Apple symbols - then it probably is not a derived work, and can be used.

If you're unsure, ask an intellectual property lawyer. Well, except that you would need a lawyer who is more expensive than Apple's lawyers, and that could be difficult to find.

Accepted Answer

That depends on whether your custom symbol is, in law, a "derived work" from Apple's copyright symbol.

If you've taken an Apple symbol and make a small adjustment to it - for example, putting a / though their $ symbol, as you seem to have done in your example, then I'm sure that does count as a derived work and cannot be used.

On the other hand, if your custom symbol is all your own work - and the only connection with Apple's symbols is, for example, that you've designed your symbol to look right when used in combination with the Apple symbols - then it probably is not a derived work, and can be used.

If you're unsure, ask an intellectual property lawyer. Well, except that you would need a lawyer who is more expensive than Apple's lawyers, and that could be difficult to find.

Can CUSTOM SF Symbol images be used on websites?
 
 
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