Guru and Copyrights?

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

I just noticed this at the bottom of every Guru page today:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Guild Wars Guru
Guild Wars is a trademark of NCsoft Corporation. Copyright© NCsoft Corporation. All right reserved.
© 2004 ArenaNet, Inc. All content of this website is copyright ArenaNet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NCsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved. ArenaNet, Arena.net and the ArenaNet logo, as well as Guild Wars, are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Is this new? or have I just never noticed it before today?

ArenaNet owns Guru? Sounds like the own the content on Guru at the least...

Lasareth

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

It's my understanding that anything on this site containing GuildWars or GuildWars-derived material is the intellectual and copyrighted property of ArenaNet and thus falls into that category.

They don't own us, that is, GWG by any means, nor do they provide any services to us other than the posts of the CR and NCsoft personnel as well as feedback on our site performance.

The wording is pretty ambiguous, but that's how I understand it.

It's the same with every other site that displays GW-related stuff as well. Anet owns all property dispersed anywhere if it is their intellectual contrivance.