User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: September 9, 2015/@comment-25801460-20150910214518/@comment-126761-20150910223326

Sorry - I don't think we'll be able to help with that. Having such a big list of Emoticons is an outlier, and simply wouldn't be a priority compared to other work. (That being said we do want to improve the ability to bulk upload to Wikia.) I cannot speak for any copyright concerns, sorry - that's best dealt with via Special:Contact.