[shifuimam]

So I was looking for a high-res copy of my employer's logo to use on a website, since our marketing department's site is currently unavailable. In my perusal of Google Images, I found a site that appears to be selling copyrighted logos - including Apple's:

http://www.pycomall.com/product.php?...251&page=2

This cannot possibly be legal, right? I doubt that text saying "follow the owner's copyright rules to use this logo" is enough to permit profiting off of selling the EPS and AI formats of copyrighted logos...

[waxcrash]

Yeah, selling the logo is not legal.

Anyways, why use that site when you can get it for free from the Russian site logotypes?

http://www.logotypes.ru/default_e.asp

Here's the same logo you found, but for free. They call it "Apple3".

http://www.logotypes.ru/list_e.asp?F...mp;x=0&y=0

[andi*pandi]

there is also:

http://www.lalogotheque.com/eng/
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/
http://www.logotypes.ru/default_e.asp
http://www.logoclipart.com/

wow, some of those sites have changed a lot since I last visited. eeek!

[Thorzdad]

While illegal, logotypes.ru has actually saved my butt a couple of times when I needed a logo for a project and the best the client's marketing department could do was a low-rez jpeg from their website.

As an aside...Your company really should have such things as logo art saved to an internal company-wide server. Keeping such things exclusively on an (apparently) external website isn't a good idea (obviously.) I understand the need to make collateral like logos available on the web (in press kits and whatnot) so you can certainly keep copies of such items available on the website, but just make sure there is a central master storehouse accessible to all departments.

[shifuimam]

I actually found this site while searching for logos other than Apple - specifically, a public university. Unis will sometimes provide freely available high-quality downloads of their logos for use on material (with proper permissions, of course). I doubt that the owners of those logos know they're out there.

I also saw that this particular site has a ton of NFL logos, which I know is illegal, given that the NFL charges a hell of lot just to use team logos on merchandise.