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The cost to trademark a logo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is $275$660 as of June 2020, plus legal fees. You can register a trademark with your state for $50-$150, but federal registration offers a great deal more legal protection.

The simple answer: Logos are not copyrighted, they are actually trademarked. Whether or not legal action is taken for replicating a trademarked logo is fully up to the company or entity that owns the trademark.

Go to the U.S. Copyright Office website. Select "Electronic Copyright Registration" to fill in the Form VA online for registration of a work of Visual Arts. Name the creator of the logo and include contact information for the owner. Many logos are works for hire.

Logos are protected by trademark and copyright. If you modify someone else's logo for your own use, the modifications must be significant enough so that no reasonable person could confuse your logo for the original logo.

A person or company should never use a trademark or logo without written permission from its owner.Trying to replace a company's logo with your own goes against the company's written policy and is never allowed without a written agreement.

Of course it's legal to copy a logo, change the colors and modify it slightly AND rotate it 90°. Perfectly legal. Just don't use it in public for your own company or you'll be spending more time and money trying to defend yourself than you would have using your time and money to design your own logo.

By law, you need not request permission to use a trademark belonging to another if it is for an editorial or informational use. Trademark law protects distinctive words, phrases, logos, symbols, slogans, and any other devices used to identify and distinguish products or services in the marketplace.