The Official Emoji Brand

I am dumbfounded (or just dumb), it seems like some entity said that it is the governing body of the English language, trademarked the English alphabet, and now everyone that wants a T-shirt containing a letter of the English alphabet have to pay royalties. Is this correct, or am I missing something obvious?

PS: It looks worse really since looks like the concept of emoji predates what is usually called emoji these days, so it is more like some guy said yesterday he owns letters™, just for collecting rent on everything that uses letters.