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Started by wafurniture, Jun 03 2008, 23:38

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#1 wafurniture

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Posted 03 June 2008, 23:38

I apologize for what is probably a silly questions. I am new to OSC and just getting my store online. I was wanting to show some logo's for the payment systems and shipping partners I use and saw that several come standard in the OSC v2.2 RC2 install package. Are the logo's in this package cleared for use by their owners? Specifically I am looking at the UPS (shipping_ups.gif) and USPS (shipping_usps.gif) logo's in the catalog/images/icons folder. I notice that the USPS charges a$25 fee to request personal use of their logo (http://www.usps.com/rightsandpermissions/_pdf/RightsandPermissionsApplication.pdf). I didn't even find a form from UPS for logo use outside of Print media.

Just want to make sure I am covered before using any logos that are trademarked.
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#2 Coopco

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Posted 04 June 2008, 08:20

View Postwafurniture, on Jun 4 2008, 09:38 AM, said:

I apologize for what is probably a silly questions. I am new to OSC and just getting my store online. I was wanting to show some logo's for the payment systems and shipping partners I use and saw that several come standard in the OSC v2.2 RC2 install package. Are the logo's in this package cleared for use by their owners? Specifically I am looking at the UPS (shipping_ups.gif) and USPS (shipping_usps.gif) logo's in the catalog/images/icons folder. I notice that the USPS charges a$25 fee to request personal use of their logo (http://www.usps.com/rightsandpermissions/_pdf/RightsandPermissionsApplication.pdf). I didn't even find a form from UPS for logo use outside of Print media.

Just want to make sure I am covered before using any logos that are trademarked.
Thanks!
-wafurniture
That is a valid question. One would hope so.


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#3 Jan Zonjee

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Posted 04 June 2008, 20:39

View Postwafurniture, on Jun 4 2008, 01:38 AM, said:

Specifically I am looking at the UPS (shipping_ups.gif)
The UPS module has been removed from the osC package some years ago (for reasons unknown to me by the way). My guess is that the shipping_ups.gif was forgotten. Anyway, it is an old logo. If you are a customer of UPS you can download better ones from their website and it does has some restrictions if I remember well. Like they want it to have a certain white space around it (don't know if that is easy to do) and a copyright notice about it being their logo.

Don't remember if you have to mention they own the color brown :)

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Posted 05 June 2008, 00:18

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The UPS module has been removed from the osC package some years ago (for reasons unknown to me by the way).

It was because UPS controls the use of their name via Licencing - which costs big money!

Vger
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