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Logo.dev’s fair use guidelines allow you to show a company’s logo in your product to identify that company. The guidelines are a Logo.dev usage policy. The rights of the logo owner still apply. Logo.dev doesn’t own the logos and gives you no rights to any logo.
This is Logo.dev’s position and a summary of the Logo.dev Terms of Service, not legal advice. For a decision about your product, ask your own lawyer.

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Two sets of rules

Logo.dev can allow or refuse a use of Logo.dev. Logo.dev can’t allow a use of a logo that its owner has the right to refuse.

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Commercial use

The fair use guidelines apply to every plan, and they allow commercial products. Use Logo.dev to add logos to a product that does more than show logos, such as a CRM, a dashboard, or a company directory. A logo search or logo download tool as your main product is not allowed. See the fair use guidelines for the full lists.

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Rights to the logos

Logo.dev gives you no license to the logos. The license in the Terms of Service covers the Logo.dev software only. Logos remain the property of their owners, and you are responsible for how you use each logo. The “Third Party IP or content” section of the Terms of Service applies to third-party content that you get through Logo.dev. Under that section:
  • Logo.dev doesn’t endorse or control third-party content, and grants no license to it.
  • Logo.dev disclaims any liability for third-party content, including its legality and any intellectual property rights in it.
  • The availability of a logo implies no endorsement by Logo.dev, no affiliation with the owner, and no legal relationship between you and the owner.
  • You bear sole responsibility for your use of third-party content.
Under the Terms of Service, you also agree not to violate the intellectual property rights of any third party. You indemnify Logo.dev against third-party claims that come from your use of Logo.dev. If this summary and the Terms of Service disagree, the Terms of Service apply. Logo.dev doesn’t obtain or check rights logo by logo. Logo.dev’s position is that only the owner of a logo can grant rights to it. Your customers can grant rights to their own logos. Logo.dev’s position is that a logo used only to identify a company falls within nominative fair use, a doctrine of United States trademark law. The law is different in other countries, and no approach removes all risk.

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Identify, don’t endorse

Use a logo to identify a company, not to imply that the company endorses you. Don’t claim ownership of a logo, and don’t register a trademark on a logo that you get from Logo.dev. Check each place where you show a logo. If the use goes further than identifying the company, ask the logo owner for permission.

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Attribution

A commercial project on the free Community plan must show a visible link to Logo.dev. Personal projects and paid plans don’t need one. Internal tools at a company, such as a CRM, are commercial. If your product is behind a login, put the link on a public page, such as your website footer. The link credits Logo.dev and gives you no rights to the logos. See attribution requirements.

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Questions

To ask whether a use fits the fair use guidelines, contact support. For permission to use a logo, ask its owner. If you own a logo, you can send an update request or ask for removal.