Get copyright string in static maps

I know I can use static google maps api to return a location image, but can it also return copyright text as a string?

I know that the returned image already contains a copyright string, but I display the images in a 3D environment and the shadows often make the text unreadable, so if I have copyright as a string, I can display the window with the text on it.

I do this to comply with Google’s copyright terms.