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Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#51
post #42

The amateur game development community would love these. Designing logos for in-universe companies is a thankless chore. But they're really adverse to using things without an explicit license. This could really use a CC0 stamp somewhere.

It does have an explicit license CC4 Attribution. So you put

Logos by XX in your credits and you're done.

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#52

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I can't upvote this enough. I know a few of the true stories behind the original logos of some of SV's unicorns and this is spot on (unfortunately, I cannot share them because they were shared in confidence). The parent comment is not wrong about the value of a great brand, but it can easily become a huge frivolous distraction after a certain point when you're should be focusing on building something useful for peopl…

Totally. I think there is plenty of value in design and brand work. The types of startups that don't have the money, or need to get a professional designer to help them out aren't the types of customer any designer would want in the first place. So free resources like these simply fill the gap to make sure startups don't waste $5 on fiverr for crap, instead get something much nicer for free. WHen they have the money…

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Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#53

These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo. this is an umbrella plus tear drop: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png paperclip http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png too complicated to be effective: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png ripoff of star trek and anarchy circle http://www.logodu…

I would never get "paperclip" from that second one.

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#54

The pharmacy logo is more or less the logo of Lloyds Pharmacy in the UK. Close enough that it could be deemed to be infringing their TM IMO (it's tricky though with generic imagery).

If you're referring to this device [1], it's a matter of opinion. Personally I wouldn't really agree: the mortar and pestle is a common enough device and the leaf is a nice distinctive element. The real risk in a situation like this is not really that you get a C&D from using it on your startup's landing page. The risk is that if you eventually tried to file a trademark for it, you would lose: either because some lar…

> The real risk in a situation like this is not really that you get a C&D from using it on your startup's landing page.

Doesn't a trademark have to be defended if you won't face the risk to lose it? Is the C&D really so unlikely?

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#56
post #11

What's the actual license?

Creative Commons (it's at the bottom of the page). Specifically: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

>No additional restrictions

Does it mean that one can't trademark a logo from this site?

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#57

These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo. this is an umbrella plus tear drop: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png paperclip http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png too complicated to be effective: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png ripoff of star trek and anarchy circle http://www.logodu…

The last one, that you say is good, is very similar to the Kodi logo http://kodi.wiki/images/1/10/Thumbnail-dark.png

Also probably too close for comfort to the git logo: http://git-scm.com/images/logo.png

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#58
Ah, another website using the Unsplash.com give-everything-away business model. Great concept! And great Unsplash photos beneath the logos :)

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're referring to this device [1], it's a matter of opinion. Personally I wouldn't really agree: the mortar and pestle is a common enough device and the leaf is a nice distinctive element. The real risk in a situation like this is not really that you get a C&D from using it on your startup's landing page. The risk is that if you eventually tried to file a trademark for it, you would lose: either because some lar…

> The real risk in a situation like this is not really that you get a C&D from using it on your startup's landing page. Doesn't a trademark have to be defended if you won't face the risk to lose it? Is the C&D really so unlikely?

IP law firms use automated software to scrape the trademark registration filings at the USPTO and other national trademark offices (ex. [1]). These software services automatically assess filings for possible infrigement. This is the most likely way for a bigco's lawyers to find out about your logo or company name - far more likely than them finding out about your startup from techcrunch or some other source.

Unfortunately for me, this happened to me. I was able to negotiate a coexistence agreement for my logo, but I could have done without the pain. If I were to start over from scratch, I would seriously consider doing the Apple/Google offline foreign filing trick [2].

[1] http://towergatesoftware.com/

[2] http://blog.altlegal.com/tongan-shell-game-how-apple-and-goo...

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

#60

These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo. this is an umbrella plus tear drop: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png paperclip http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png too complicated to be effective: http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png ripoff of star trek and anarchy circle http://www.logodu…

The quality varies a lot with these logos like anything, particularly when scaled down to tiny sizes, but some are really nice.

The paperclip one would be great for company that gets you paperclips, _fast_.

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