The Unauthorized Doodle
For those of you who used Google yesterday just to find out that there is an unrecognizable doodle appearing instead of the standard logo I researched the issue and this appears to be Joan Miró’s 113th birthday and is based on his pieces called “The Escape Ladder”, “Nocture”, “The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers”.
The story doesn’t end here, aparently the artists family did not like the idea…
Today, the family of Joan Miro was upset to discover elements of several works by the Spanish surrealist incorporated into Google’s logo. Google has since taken the logo off its site.
The Artists Rights Society, a group that represents the Miro family and more than 40,000 visual artists and their estates, had asked Google to remove the image early this morning.
“There are underlying copyrights to the works of Miro, and they are putting it up without having the rights,” said Theodore Feder, president of Artists Rights Society.
In a written statement to the Mercury News, Google said that it would honor the request but that it did not believe its logo was a copyright violation.
“From time to time we create special logos to celebrate people we admire,” the statement said. “Joan Miro made an extraordinary contribution to the world with his art andwe want to pay tribute to that.”
Artist’s family asks Google to take down today’s ‘painted’ logo (Mercury News)
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