Logos and trademarks

All the logos and trademarks of organizations and products are property of their respective owners.

Logos and trademarks of an organization, item, or event are protected by copyright. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the Top Car Guide pages of logos and trademarks for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under copyright laws in certain countries.

Use rationale

The logos and trademarks used in the articles of Top Car Guide is a subject of public interest. The significance of the logos or trademarks is to help the reader identify an organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey.

All the logos and trademarks are of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution.

Because these are logos or trademarks, there is almost certainly no free equivalents. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Textual information and imagery

Most of information displayed in Top Car Guide pages is taken from various public sources, including Wikipedia. Most of text and many of its images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Original contributions of text and images remain the property of their creators, while the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses ensure the content is freely distributable and reproducible.