Trademarks, licences and attribution
Who owns what. This site names a lot of other companies' products, so it is worth being precise about why, and about what we own ourselves.
Trademarks named on this site#
This site refers to roughly fifty third-party product names across its guides. All of them belong to their respective owners, including but not limited to:
| Mark | Owner |
|---|---|
| Windows, Microsoft, Surface, Snipping Tool, Xbox Game Bar, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams | Microsoft Corporation |
| macOS, MacBook, Mac, Apple, Safari, Touch Bar | Apple Inc. |
| ChromeOS, Chromebook, Chrome, Google, Gmail, Android | Google LLC |
| HP, Pavilion, Envy, Spectre, Omen, EliteBook, ProBook | HP Inc. |
| Dell, XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Vostro, Alienware | Dell Inc. |
| Lenovo, ThinkPad, IdeaPad, Yoga, Legion, ThinkBook | Lenovo Group Ltd |
| Asus, Zenbook, Vivobook, ROG, TUF, ScreenPad, Armoury Crate | ASUSTeK Computer Inc. |
| Acer, Aspire, Swift, Nitro, Predator | Acer Inc. |
| Samsung, Galaxy Book, Samsung Notes, Quick Share | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd |
| MSI | Micro-Star International Co. Ltd |
| Snagit | TechSmith Corporation |
| Firefox | Mozilla Foundation |
| Ubuntu | Canonical Ltd |
| IBM, IBM Plex | International Business Machines Corporation |
Any mark not listed remains the property of its owner; omission from this table is not a claim.
Why those names appear here#
To identify the thing being described, and nothing more. A guide about where the Print Screen key sits on a Dell keyboard cannot be written without saying "Dell". Using a trademark to refer to the trademark owner's own product is normally called nominative or referential use, and it is how every review, comparison and manual works.
What we deliberately avoid:
- No logos. No company's logo, wordmark or brand imagery appears anywhere on this site. Brand names appear as plain text only.
- No trade dress. Nothing here imitates the look of a manufacturer's own site or documentation.
- No implied endorsement. No page suggests a manufacturer has approved, reviewed or sponsored it.
- No marks in our own name. The domain and site name contain no third-party trademark.
- Correct ownership. Marks are written as the owner writes them, and not used as verbs or made plural.
screenshot-laptop.com is independent and is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by or sponsored by any company named on this site.
If you own one of these marks and consider any specific use improper, write to contact@screenshot-laptop.com and it will be reviewed promptly rather than argued about.
Our own content#
Text, layout, code and original images on this site are © screenshot-laptop.com, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
That means you may quote, adapt, translate and republish it, including commercially, provided you credit screenshot-laptop.com with a link. Machine-readable licence metadata is on every page and in our structured data, so automated systems can establish the terms without asking.
Note the difference from the terms of use, which govern use of the site itself. The licence above governs the content.
Third-party components#
IBM Plex — the typeface, © IBM Corp., used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The licence text ships with the font files, as that licence requires. The files served here are subsets containing only the characters this site uses.
No other third-party code, libraries, frameworks, icons or images are used. The site runs no JavaScript, loads no external resources, and every image is generated from our own source. That is unusually short for a components list, and it is deliberate.
Software mentioned but not used#
Snagit, Greenshot, ShareX, Shottr, CleanShot X, PicPick, Flameshot and Spectacle are discussed on our tools pages. None is bundled, redistributed or modified here; they are named and assessed, nothing more. See our disclosure statement for any commercial relationship.
Questions people actually ask
Do I need permission to write about a brand like this?
Referring to a product by its name in order to discuss that product is normally permitted as nominative use, and does not require a licence. What generally causes problems is using a logo, imitating trade dress, implying endorsement, or putting someone else's mark in your own brand or domain. This site does none of those. That said, trademark law varies by country and this is not legal advice.
Can I reuse the content from this site?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0: quote, translate, adapt, even commercially, provided you credit screenshot-laptop.com with a link. Note that the trademark table above is about other companies' marks, which our licence cannot grant you any rights in.
Why does the font need a licence notice?
The SIL Open Font License requires its copyright notice and licence text to be distributed with the font software, including subsets. The licence file therefore ships alongside the woff2 files at /fonts/OFL.txt. It costs nothing and omitting it is a straightforward breach.