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RE: Steemit BETA - Redesign/Rebranding?! My thoughts on it from an brand design perspective.
Did you get permission before using the logo on your post?
Did you get permission before using the logo on your post?
Actually design critiques, of public brands, are covered by the Fair Use doctrine. Even more so since @malicered does often write about design.
That he may earn from this article does not equate to commercial use either, not in the sense that taking the logo and put it in his avatar would be a potential Commercial use since he does occasionally provide design services (via Steemit even).
No permission required to post the logo's image file in this post. But he would have to ask if he were to change the logo in @cryptoctopus's avatar to the new Steemit logo.
Using a logo as part of a news update and design critique about a public brand: Fair Use. Even if earns from this and unsolicited analysis.
Branding himself with the new Steemit logo, in order to sell more avatar designs to Steemians: explicitly outlawed now.
What are the four important conditions for Fair Use:
Source: Copryright and Plagiarism specialist Jonathan Bailey
Thanks for the clarification!
Haha, I noticed that too. Good point. Now that it's steemits registered trademark, I technically need permission to use this logo on my posts. I mean, they did post about it as well right? I believe this constitutes fair use though as it's purely informational and so on and so forth.
Ha no idea I'm not a lawyer, but you did make money on this post. I have no idea how this works and don't think they care if you are using the trademark as information on steemit. I'm just erroring on the side of caution until some more information clears this up.