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Many people share some ignorant belief that if you use the name of an anime in your title that you have no right to any of your game's content. That is incorrect. Also people think you need to register a copyright in order to have exclusive ownership of it and the right to legal charges, this is an incorrect assumption.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

"In the United States, copyright has been made automatic (in the style of the Berne Convention) since March 1, 1989, which has had the effect of making it appear to be more like a property right. Thus, as with some forms of personal property, a copyright need not be granted or obtained through official registration with any government office. Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium (such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape or a letter), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights. However, while a copyright need not be officially registered for the copyright owner to begin exercising his or her exclusive rights, registration of works (where the laws of that jurisdiction provide for registration) does have benefits; it serves as prima facie evidence of a valid copyright and enables the copyright holder to seek statutory damages and attorney's fees (whereas in the USA, for instance, registering after an infringement only enables one to receive actual damages and lost profits). The original holder of the copyright may be the employer of the actual author rather than the author himself if the work is a "work for hire". Again, this principle is widespread; in English law the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 provides that where a work in which copyright subsists is made by an employee in the course of that employment, the copyright is automatically owned by the employer which would be a "Work for Hire.""

Therefor the graphics and code are copywritten, i am the employer so I'm the only owner of them, and your not permitted as is stated on the site. While we do not take claim for the scant naruto content (the name which is trademarked) we give credit to kishimoto and shonen jump on our hub and use it only in fair use as an educational demo of game design and is a not for profit endeavor. As such even though trademark infringement is a separate argument anyway, we are safe and if a cease and desist order occurs i will rename the game "Grand Online Adventure". Regardless our rights are guaranteed to us and your entirely wrong in your accusation that we don't have ownership of our graphics and code.