File talk:Google.png

well, I want to know if I can use this image to the spanish wikipedia. I ask that, because I've no idea about copyrights and other legal stuffs. I hope you can help me, Thanks --190.137.210.73 19:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC) (sorry for my poor english :( )

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Last edit has made it look worse! However I know a trick to make the shadow transparent from an opaque image. I did it but I'm not sure if there are copyright problems with playing with a company logo image file... logo with transparent shadow —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.212.217.64 (talk • contribs).

Speedy Deletion, Fair-use rationale.

In order to respect the fair-use guidelines, I am going to lower the resolution of the logo so that this picture will not be deleted. The same rationale used for the Apple logo applies to this as well.

The use of a low resolution version of this logo constitutes fair use in the Wikipedia article Google because:

   * The low resolution nature of the image prevents reuse which could infringe on the commercial benefit of the copyright owner;
   * The image and the product it represents are critically discussed by the article;
   * Google has willingly published such images to represent their products.

I hope this is acceptable to all parties involved. –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 07:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC) google.com

Non-free or Free?

I saw that in many other images related to Google brandname (Google Earth, Google Maps,...), all of them are tagged with {{PD-ineligible}} and {{trademark}}. Why is not this image? Vinhtantran (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

SVG

I see that every time the SVG tag is added it gets deleted. Why should this not be an SVG? --Ysangkok (talk) 22:29, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

The image is 3D rendered; it includes rendered shadows, rendered surfaces (colour, lighting), etc. This cannot be replicated in SVG format. A conversion to SVG would therefore by necessity be both pointless and inaccurate - and the latter could indeed violate Google's trademark rights. Google itself does not distribute a vector version (instead it distributes a high-resolution TIFF for press purposes). Stannered (talk) 23:20, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure it can. SVG can have rendered shadows and textures and all that. There's just no reason to convert it and making it render perfectly accurate would take a lot of work. 71.155.241.250 (talk) 04:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

If you want to attempt it for some reason. There's a really high-res version here. 71.155.241.250 (talk) 05:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

New Google logo (13 December 2009)

Are there any sources for the new logo? I can't see it on google.com, neither is there a blogpost.—Totie (talk) 19:01, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Transfer to commons

I would transfer this file to commons due to its copyright status (PD-textlogo), but it is a great responsability for me and I want to make sure I do nothing wrong. Please tell me, is the file eligible to be transferred at our commons: store? Thanks. Gikü (talk)

In the vast majority of cases it would be. In this case, the old curmudgeons over in :Commons have decided that for some reason this image does not meet their standards of PD-Ineligible (without much explanation other than "we have to be sure!" and other such FUD). So it's staying here for the time being. Stannered (talk) 19:41, 28 December 2009 (UTC)