Forum Discussion
add copyright info but keep it hidden from end user
Thanks for this information. At my prior employer we used stock photography images and those were cited in a hidden area on each page so the image was attributed, but the student didn't need to see this. I'll check with our legal department to see if they are comfortable with tracking it on our source content documents.
So if we already have that information in the main content document I'm working from does it legally need to be included in the digital version? As long as we can trace the ownership and legal copyright usage in our documentation?
*Does it legally need to be included? If you are asking this question, then you may simply need to run it by someone in your organization or company's legal department (there's always one somewhere!)
* As long as we can trace the ... legal copyright...? As JudyNollet​ notes, creating a separate tracking file of some type would be an efficient way to do this.
I guess at this point I'm wondering why you need to do this in the first place. Nearly all of the graphic resources provided by Articulate through the Content Library are open-source; you can find the full attribution on a number of graphic resource sites such as Pexels.com, Pixabay, and Flickr, among others. I would not have any issues using these sites as Articulate does: they are open-source content. Unless you're being pressed by someone to prove where you got a certain graphic or image, then you are not likely to need to supply that information. If you are being asked to provide it, then perhaps this discussion is your opportunity to create some sort of tracking and documentation process for your team.