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A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by merelysounds »

dcreater wrote: post #10

The Linux logo is badly in need of modernization

That version of Tux seems to be an arbitrary glossy version. There are others, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)#/media/File:TuxFl...

Also interesting, Tux is not the logo. From the same wikipedia page:

> Since Tux won none of the three competitions that were held Tux is formally known as the Linux brand character and not the logo.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by jonathankoren »

uxp8u61q wrote: post #4
jacknews wrote: post #2

Obviously the logo itself is copyright, trademarked etc, but what about the svg? EG, If I submit svg of my logo to this registry, does it become owned by vercel in some way?

It's a website hosted by Vercel, it's not made by Vercel. As far as I can tell it's just someone's project published without much thought given to legal issues. Try contacting them maybe https://github.com/pheralb/svgl/issues

A collection of logos is clearly fair use. No one is purporting that these are anything other than the logo of whatever it is the logo of. Now if you started using these logos to misrepresent an affiliation or something, now that would be open you up to a civil lawsuit.

Don’t overthink this. If you needed a letter from a lawyer for every logo then Wikipedia wouldn’t have logos on every business page, and companies wouldnt often have press kits distributing high quality logos in various formats suitable for high quality replication.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by fsckboy »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #9
jacknews wrote: post #2

Obviously the logo itself is copyright, trademarked etc, but what about the svg? EG, If I submit svg of my logo to this registry, does it become owned by vercel in some way?

Logo trademarked by the represented entity or its owner. SVG content (i.e. the text underlying the image) copyright to the person creating the SVG. I would personally take this as a) a demonstration of how to implement various things in SVG and b) a demonstration of the skills of the SVGs’ creator(s). I can’t imagine any reason I would ever need to place Meta’s logo on anything. Caveat: I’m in the USA. Could be diffe…

>SVG content copyright to the person creating the SVG.

um... no. In the US, you can't take an image that I have a copyright to and turn it into an SVG and distribute it such that web browsers will render it into a facsimile of the image I own without infringing my copyright. It would be on you, not on the person viewing it.

At best you've created a derivative work that you can stop me from distributing and I'd have to make my own SVG. Of course, you wouldn't even have a license to send me a copy of your SVG, so I'd have to create my own anyway.

Re: A Beautiful library of SVG logos

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Post by Tagbert »

1-6 wrote: post #8

My technique of finding high quality logos involved looking for PDFs with logos embedded into them and then importing it to Illustrator. Earnings statements and digital product catalogs have interesting logos too like Bluetooth and CE/UL marks. It’s not exactly like the original but close enough. It’s enough to take the DWG into AutoCAD or CAD/CAM to generate high quality vinyl decals. I can’t tell how close to the o…

SVG does not store a bitmap. They are XML files and you can inspect the source code.
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