Logo Theft – What Should You Do?
Like photos, sales copy, order buttons, etc., chances are your logo will either be ripped off by someone or you’ll get a claim one day that you stole someone else’s logo.
Copying it is one thing. The gray area is where substantive changes have been made. On the funny side, Dogbert in the Dilbert comic strip designed a logo that supposedly was the “circle of quality”…which happened to look like the stain your coffee mug would make if placed on a sheet of white paper. A couple years later, Lucent came out with a logo that looked like the coffee mug stain. Wonder if the designer reads Dilbert.
Here’s mine.
For an interesting review of the logo theft issue, check out two related posts at the LogoBlog.org.
About the Author
With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 15 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young is President of the Internet Ethics Council and creator of Website Legal Forms Generator software. He helps entrepreneurs protect and grow their businesses online.
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I must admit I have stolen a few in my time, including the Serre Chevalier Logo that I have used in my new site http://www.serrechevalierhotels.com – I kinda figure that by the time the french find it, it won’t matter to me anymore:)