Goggle Data Copyright

Is it me, or has a copyright message appeared on all the tiles downloaded from Google Maps? I've mainly been using Windows Live Search Maps, so could be mistaken.

Here is an example from Google Maps (this is a building near our Keima offices that shows up the copyright markings clearly):



and the same area from Windows Live Search Maps:



Perhaps it's always been there, but it is very distracting. Perhaps this is connected to the recent shutdown of the open source Gaia (see Ogle Earth: From Gaia with love)