VectorLogoZone/vectorlogozone

Seriously illegal

Opened this issue · 5 comments

Deleted user commented

Vector Logo Zone is a place to find uniform SVG logos perfect for any website. Each logo is consistently sized, padded, and has a transparent background making it look great on any website. All our logos are free to use, including hot-linked from our ultra-fast CDN!

WHAT!!!??!

THAT'S NOT HOW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORKS

https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html

Apple Logo and Apple-owned Graphic Symbols: You may not use the Apple Logo or any other Apple-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or for any other purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Apple, such as a reseller agreement.

fileformat commented

I appreciate your concern.

Have you filed a similar issue with FontAwesome?
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/svgs/brands/apple.svg

Deleted user commented

That's quite mindblowing. They sell, commercially, IP they don't own. I saw one closed issue regarding trademarks where they basically made up their own legal rules on the spot - pulled from between the ass crack - to solve the issue. Basically like that Facebook home made legal agreement trend 6 years ago where people just wrote some gibber jabber legal-looking text in their status field to "protect themselves from privacy issues" completely ignorant of how laws and agreements actually work in the grown-ups world. Completely disregarding the fact you agreed on their terms of service and they agreed on.. nothing. It's kindergarden socialist make belief.

Deleted user commented

"Others are also breaking the law therefore I'm not in the wrong" is not a valid argument against trademark law. Clearly it's illegal without any doubt, written in explicit English text:

You may not use the Apple Logo or any other Apple-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or for any other purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Apple, such as a reseller agreement.

I'm just shocked by the widespread and blatantly obvious disregard for IP laws. Let's see where this (and Font Awesome) goes.

girng commented

I thought this repo was for like procedural generated logos or whatever that can be used for your company. (unique). But after looking at the website, some of these logos are corporate ones (with intellectual property rights)