Using past clients logos on your website

[No2politics]

You're probably in breach of trademark laws doing that.

If someone tells me to take it down I will! Hardly likely though

[FatLazyContractor]

There are better options...

[PurpleGorilla]

National Geographic Channel - WTF!

[WTFH]

What about if your linked in page has your past clients on it. So my public page shows the client and their logo. So would you not argue that the relationship between you and the client is already public?

I'm probably conflating two different things here.

Yup, two different things.


When someone puts a logo image on LinkedIn, they do so agreeing to LI's terms and conditions, which includes that LI can use the image as a brand identifier for that person/business. The use of that image does not include others copying it for their own use (standard copyright).
If you include on your profile that you worked for Laker Airways, LI checks to see if they have Laker Airways as a member. If they do, then they retrieve the information they have (be that a logo, picture, or one liner about them) and associate that with your profile.
At no time are you in control of that image/data, it's all within LI.


As for the question of using logos etc on your own website (or even your CV), legally you need to ask permission from the organisation to do so. Some may be happy without question. Others will want to review the positioning/context etc. If you have worked at two organisations in the same sector, they may argue as to which one is first on your page, the size of the logos used, etc.


Now, I've said all that without mentioning the naff factor... Well, it's naff. You are a professional, don't do it.
If your reputation can be summed up in a couple of logos, that says a lot about you, none of it good.

[missinggreenfields]

If someone tells me to take it down I will! Hardly likely though

I was asked to remove a link to a client website once, or to put in a nofollow.

I didn't.

[WTFH]

National Geographic Channel - WTF!

Well, it says a lot that she has BMW and Nikon tattooed on her. Not Alfa and Canon. They aren't for people who cover themselves in ink.

[FatLazyContractor]

Well, it says a lot that she has BMW and Nikon tattooed on her. Not Alfa and Canon. They aren't for people who cover themselves in ink.

FFS, it's a HE, you pervert moron

Did you say you are Markymark's friend?

[PurpleGorilla]

Well, it says a lot that she has BMW and Nikon tattooed on her. Not Alfa and Canon. They aren't for people who cover themselves in ink.

Canon's to the left of her.

[PurpleGorilla]

FFS, it's a HE, you pervert moron

Did you say you are Markymark's friend?

He looks like a girl.

[PurpleGorilla]

Alfa Romeo is out of shot, tattooed across his/her arsehole