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you might be right, but there is a lot of creativity out there surrounding logo manipulation. i've seen many variations of twitter, facebook, etc; to fit a give
by meesterdude 11y ago
you might be right, but there is a lot of creativity out there surrounding logo manipulation. i've seen many variations of twitter, facebook, etc; to fit a given design.
IANAL, but if i was running a company and people were using their own takes on my logo to reference my product, I would be flattered more than anything. If they were using it as their own, I would certainly have a problem with that. I was under the impression that it was the latter that companies would need to go after in trademark abuse. Going after the former feels... needlessly abrassive, and can turn off formerly hard-won, die-hard users.
- phonon 11y agoAll those companies have very strict branding guidelines actually. I ran into this when designing a site for a corporate customer, we had to follow all the branding/logo guidelines in the little social "connect to us" section. https://about.twitter.com/company/brand-assets https://about.twitter.com/company/brand-assets https://www.facebookbrand.com/dos-donts https://www.facebookbrand.com/dos-donts https://brand.linkedin.com/policies https://brand.linkedin.com/policies https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines?hl=en https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines?hl=en etc.
- phonon 11y agoAlso, open source groups protect their logos just as strongly. E.g. https://www.djangoproject.com/community/logos/ https://www.djangoproject.com/community/logos/