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 :

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 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)