diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index 4f8070594..b19318bfc 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ revised by Martin Paul Eve and then John MacFarlane.
 License. Originally by Martin Fenner."
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-The file data/emoji.json is derived from https://github.com/github/gemoji.
+The file emoji.json is derived from https://github.com/github/gemoji.
 
 Copyright (c) 2019 GitHub, Inc.
 
diff --git a/data/emoji.json b/emoji.json
similarity index 100%
rename from data/emoji.json
rename to emoji.json
diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index fba1a27cb..c69540b9b 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ extra-source-files:
                  -- files needed to build man page
                  man/manfilter.lua
                  man/pandoc.1.template
+                 -- data files used by TH
+                 emoji.json
                  -- trypandoc
                  trypandoc/Makefile
                  trypandoc/index.html
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Emoji.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Emoji.hs
index b10321760..823f9450d 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Emoji.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Emoji.hs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import Text.Pandoc.Definition (Inline (Span, Str))
 import Text.Pandoc.Emoji.TH (genEmojis)
 
 emojis :: M.Map T.Text T.Text
-emojis = M.fromList $(genEmojis "data/emoji.json")
+emojis = M.fromList $(genEmojis "emoji.json")
 
 emojiToInline :: T.Text -> Maybe Inline
 emojiToInline emojikey = makeSpan <$> M.lookup emojikey emojis