Interesting bit of news I wonder if this would be possible with CoH!
http://massivelyop.net/2015/04/29/everquest-emulator-group-gets-a-written-agreement-with-daybreak/
I saw that too-- and after all the missteps Daybreak has taken since SOE's split from Sony, it is a welcome sight to be sure.
Turbine is doing something similar for its former Asheron's Call franchise. All three companies do own their IPs, so that makes it humanely possible for each. It's just that NCSoft is by far the least human of the three.
Turbine seems to care about their players the most. Smedley has always had at least a tiny bit of compassion for SOE's player base. NCSoft hasn't ever really seemed to share that type of sentiment at all, and that's the main problem there.
There were rumors that ArenaNet had a clause in their Guild Wars contracts saying NCSoft could never shut down one of their games. Clearly, something went on as GW1 only got put into maintenance mode instead of shuttered last year. But outside of that, I think we're screwed. They've never budged on Infinite Rasa, or given out the rights to Auto Assault, CoX, or any of their other shuttered IPs.