Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The thing with the copyright notice being required is that it goes hand-in-hand with other rules like where the FFXIV assets can be used (basically restricted to personal use on websites) and that they should not be combined with third party content – the end result being that the SE copyright notice is applied to an image that is entirely SE's property.

Breaking the other rules and then applying the notice to the billboard full of altered images and third party logos is probably a worse look than not applying it at all.

(Also, just from memory, I think there was something at one point where they stated that modded images should not have the copyright notice on them so they won't be associated back to SE? Does anyone have a source for that?)
you could argue that in a court but you still couldn't prove that the intent when using the ffxiv and square enix copyright logos were malicious and intended to impersonate square enix or to give the impression that it was an official square enix event
once again real life law doesn't work like the ToS, square enix can't just dictate what is the truth in a court of law.