Apparently not everyone is tickled with the artistic doodles on Google's main search page. The Artists Rights Society, which represents the family of Spanish artist Joan Miro and others, asked Google to remove a Miro-inspired doodle that was incorporated into the Google logo on Thursday citing copyright violation, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury News.
Google told the newspaper that it was honoring the request but did not believe it had violated copyright. The colorful, abstract doodle was displayed to mark the anniversary of Miro's birth in 1893. He died in 1983. The Artists Rights Society also was behind Google's removal of a 2002 doodle inspired by another Spanish surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, the article said.