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If your new design is too similar to an existing logo, especially if your companies do similar things, your logo could be refused by the copyright office, or you could be sued by the original logo holder.

For example, the Apple computer company had an apple as its logo. The Beatles recording company also had an apple as its logo. The two could have been in contention but the companies didn't do the same thing and were on different continents.

That didn't save them from court battles however. The Beatles made it clear that if Apple ever got into the recording industry, their logo would be a problem. When Apple added sound to their operating system (besides that old computer "beep"), they called the new sound "Sosumi"... So Sue Me.

When iTunes was developed, Apple Computers and Apple Records spent a lot of time negotiating what would happen; that's why it took so long for iTunes to be able to offer the Beatles catalog.

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