Comments on: Proper Use of the Church Logo

By: JonnyB

JonnyB — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:57:22 +0000

What is the ruling on using rubber stamps with church logo to signify the Bishop has sactioned/authorised or signed a reference in behalf of a member of his congregation to a government department, an employer etc whilst acting in his position as bishop.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:47:35 +0000

Holy Cow!! thanks for all the info! I was searching for the Church logo to add our ward bulletin when I stumbled across this website. It’s funny, I never think of the legal side of the Church, only the spiritual side. This has been a bit of an eye opener for me!

By: ldsWebguy

ldsWebguy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:54:22 +0000

Chris,

According to the Church policy, you can use the name of the Church, but not the Church logo on the business cards and the door hangers. You could get them printed at a local printer.

By: Chris Aguilar

Chris Aguilar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:10:48 +0000

If I understand correctly, if I would like to create some cards (business size) as a Bishop of the church, that would be alright. Would that be done by church distribution or a local printer? Additionally, we will be getting door hangers printed for our home teachers that will state, more or less, “From your home teacher in the Bonita 1st ward” Then the logo, “The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”. The door hangers are a way to let our numerous less actives/missing sheep know that we are thinking about them if we should find them not home. There will be space allowed for a note on the back.

By: Jane Dumont

Jane Dumont — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:17:09 +0000

Sorry about the typo – “That way…” – not esy way.
Maybe the other folks are making typos, too.

By: Jane Dumont

Jane Dumont — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:13:58 +0000

This site is just what I need to show our members the correct way to spell the Church’s name.

One more point as to why some people spell the name incorrectly – When using all caps – write the name like this:

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

That esy is used a lot and so in mixed letters some folks continue to use the capital D instead of small d .

By: MorettiDP

MorettiDP — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:41:25 +0000

Is important you know that in US and Canada Church publishes envelopes, letterheads and other stationary for wards and stakes. In other places of the world this materials is unavailable. A policy to create these materials locally will be interesting to international units.

By: SingerGuy

SingerGuy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:24:08 +0000

It would also be good to point out that the name of the church is spelled Latter-day, not Latter-Day or Latter Day. Again, it’s part of the copyright. There is only one correct way to spell Latter-day.

I worked in church typesetting many years ago, and this was something they told me on the first day on the job. I see members of the church spell it wrong all the time because they simply don’t know there is a right and a wrong way to do it.

BTW, John is absolutely right in what he says. You have to protect a logo from falling into the public domain. This isn’t about trust of membership, it’s about following the copyright laws to protect the logo.

By: John

John — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:22:41 +0000

This is not something the church cooked up. I’ve belonged to a non-profit organization for about 20 years and sat on the board for a while. By law, you must restrict use of a trademark, service mark, etc. to protect your use of it. If the organization puts no restrictions on it, it will fall into public domain. The company I work for has similar restrictions on its marks even for internal publications. You establish a brand then work to keep it. It seems to me that the church moved to this current logo because control of the old logo was lost (I read that somewhere when the logo changed.)

By: ldsWebguy

ldsWebguy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:22:39 +0000

Shane,
You’re welcomed to identify yourself as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and to direct people to mormon.org. You just shouldn’t use the logo, which would imply that you are an official representative of the Church.