diff --git a/minimal-image.changes b/minimal-image.changes
index 0c3911a..4cf3431 100644
--- a/minimal-image.changes
+++ b/minimal-image.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 30 15:34:45 UTC 2024 - SUSE Update Bot <bci-internal@suse.de>
+
+- remove nonsensical org.opencontainers.image.authors - duplication of .vendor
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 11 15:12:52 UTC 2024 - SUSE Update Bot <bci-internal@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/minimal-image.kiwi b/minimal-image.kiwi
index 664628f..aa444d7 100644
--- a/minimal-image.kiwi
+++ b/minimal-image.kiwi
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ You can contact the BCI team via https://github.com/SUSE/bci/discussions
           additionaltags="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%,latest">
         <labels>
           <suse_label_helper:add_prefix prefix="org.opensuse.bci.minimal">
-            <label name="org.opencontainers.image.authors" value="openSUSE (https://www.opensuse.org/)"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.title" value="openSUSE Tumbleweed BCI Minimal"/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.description" value="Minimal container based on the openSUSE Tumbleweed Base Container Image."/>
             <label name="org.opencontainers.image.version" value="%OS_VERSION_ID_SP%-%RELEASE%"/>