Well I design logos for as a part of my living, and I can tell you logo design can take up to several months. Whilst putting up with some of the most frustrating client interactions you can ever imagine just to get them done.
I said it was hypocritical for a thief to get mad at someone stealing his work, which it is, if you want to argue with that then please explain...IMO its like feeling sorry for a bank robber when his car gets stolen.
The skinners get mad at their designs being ripped, not at the use of common logos. I also design logos for a living and they also get stolen, even by popular logo sites who like to inform everyone that the logos are not clipart or whatever.
It also takes allot of work and skill/ craftsmanship to steal a bunch of cars, chop them up, put them back together into the thieves own creation. I sure if you stole their end result, they would get mad too. However they would be hypocrites for those feelings.
^^That was for the purpose of analogy. I'm not saying stealing a logo to make a skin is the same as stealing a car, but in some cases the price paid for copyright infringement is much larger than that for grand theft auto.
I'm not a religious man but i do agree with "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
If you want to call a skin or any artwork "yours" then you must be the sole creator of said work, or be granted rights to the intellectual property used to create it.
Logo's are usually registered trademarks, not copyrighted. It would achieve little to copyright a corporate identity, it's all about the trademark. Anyway having your logo used by sim racers on their cars is a bonus. What would be insulting is sim racers starting up companies using your registered trademark, but nobody here is doing that with their skins - are they?
EDIT: Let me put it in context: If I put my company logo on the next software product (which I will, incidentally) then it'll have the registered trademark logo. If I put a copyright logo next to that then i'm implying the product itself is copyrighted, not the logo. To copyright the product I need a seperate, standalone, statement of copyright - and a bank safe...
The reason I used the term copyright is because trademark infringement is using the logo for your own product and passing it off as your own, not the case here.
Having a registered trademark does not mean it's free of copyright. All intellectual property rights overlap it's not a case of one or the other.
Being the owner of these intellectual rights gives you the ability to set your own guidelines and restrictions for using and reproducing their logos. These guidlines do fall under the copyright act.
Most of the larger companies like IBM, Coke, Honda etc, have very strict rules pertaining to the use of their logos. While I'm sure hip companies like redbull and DC shoes are flattered and thankful for the promotion, do you really think Honda want's its "H" emblem on the front or back of the XRT? or appearing as the manufacturer of any of the current live for speed cars? Many manufacturers don't even like having their cars in games with severe damage modelling let alone their brand identity on cars that don't even look like their products.
My only point was that I find it funny and hypocritical to get outraged over say, some 14 year old kid using your skin that is plastered with logos you had no right to reproduce in such a manner in the first place, that's it.
On topic you can add neons if you can change shadow colour then put simple shadows on, giving the impression of neons but I don't think you can edit shadow colour.