> If I contract someone to make me a logo, I can normally safely assume there won’t be lingering IP issues after I have the deliverable.
This clause is not about copyright on the logo itself. It's about trademark law and all the difficulties therein.
I understand your concern about copyright. In copyright, the source of the image is what matters, not its appearance: If you created your own logo that happens to be similar to an existing logo, but did not actually copy the existing item (and could prove that), you'd be fine. If you did copy it, and made significant changes until it didn't look confusingly like the original, you'd be guilty. But this isn't the problem that "perform due diligence to determine that the use of the Design Resources is free of any adverse claims and is not subject to any third party rights" is warning you about.
Trademark law is different than copyright law. If you create a brand new logo that, unfortunately, happens to look by random chance similar to another logo that already exists in your market but you didn't know about, that's an IP issue. You need to search out and differentiate your logo from all conflicting logos that already exist.
This search is why no artist or automatic logo generator could guarantee that you're able to use the outputs.
While you're correct, I don't think that's why the terms are stated as they are. This site is aggregating symbols and appears to be completely uninformed about the origin's copyright. The chance that one of the icons has licensing terms is pretty high.
This clause is not about copyright on the logo itself. It's about trademark law and all the difficulties therein.
I understand your concern about copyright. In copyright, the source of the image is what matters, not its appearance: If you created your own logo that happens to be similar to an existing logo, but did not actually copy the existing item (and could prove that), you'd be fine. If you did copy it, and made significant changes until it didn't look confusingly like the original, you'd be guilty. But this isn't the problem that "perform due diligence to determine that the use of the Design Resources is free of any adverse claims and is not subject to any third party rights" is warning you about.
Trademark law is different than copyright law. If you create a brand new logo that, unfortunately, happens to look by random chance similar to another logo that already exists in your market but you didn't know about, that's an IP issue. You need to search out and differentiate your logo from all conflicting logos that already exist.
This search is why no artist or automatic logo generator could guarantee that you're able to use the outputs.