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Reproducing a logo does not give you legal domain over it. It is still under Harvard's copyright. That's why I changed the tag. — [[User:Flamurai|flamuraiTM]] 07:58, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

Is this actually true for heraldry? Is any rendering of a blazon automatically copyrighted? I'm not sure, but I'd be inclined to think that only a particular rendering of a blazon is copyrightable, not every possible rendering. Lupin 21:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I don't know about in general, but Harvard certainly retains copyright to their logo, which is rendered a myriad different ways around the campus. I would imagine that a different rendering would still fall under Harvard's copyright. --Jacobolus 04:56, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Actually, since Harvard first created its coat of arms around when it was founded [1], the copyright over it has expired, since it's been almost 400 years. The university would retain any copyright, however, to any representation that they have made in the current copyright term. Thus, placing a logo from their website up here could only be accomplished through fair use, since that image would have been made recently. However, drawing Harvard's coat of arms from scratch or posting a photograph of an image published in the 1800s would be quite legal. Pmadrid 22:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Logo

Sorry to overwrite the previous logo. It was a valient effort, but it in the end looked very amateurish. This is a logo copied as best I could and turned into vector artwork. It is much more faithful to the original logo than the previous version, which had unnecessary silver-looking gradients. --Jacobolus 08:01, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)