As many of you know, back on February 7th this site reached a state of general completion, meaning all currently existing sections were filled in. Some of the last ones to arrive were the Mega Man Legends 2 Official Artwork Gallery and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne Gallery. By last to arrive I mean they were added fairly recently. These sections feature perhaps the largest collection of Legends images to be found on the entire Internet. Now, just within the short time these images have been uploaded, I am seeing them pop up in various places around the web...

This is called Image Theft- not always as bad as the name implies, but sometimes yes. At least in the world of video game web sites it happens all the time. I'd like to raise awareness of this and tell you people out there that it's generally not appreciated. However, let me get into more specifics...

I am speaking of official art, that means it's Capcom's property, not that of MMLS. Everyone is free to help themselves to these images, but it's at least common courtesy to give credit to the site from which you take them. Why? Well let me tell you why- putting together a large image gallery is a lot of work! For starters, every image in the galleries on this site went through a change of one form or another. Some of them have just been resized and saved for web, others have been touched up with details that took anywhere from 60 seconds to 60 minutes. Then there are even ones which were once part of scanned pages. For these I have taken those scans, cut the image out, drawn parts that had been missing because another image overlapped it, and cleaned up the overall appearance. This process can take hours for a single image. Do you see my point? Just because Capcom drew it doesn't mean that MMLS had nothing to do with bringing it to you.

So now you have a more healthy appreciation for what goes into the images. But some people just steal them and put them on their own sites with no credit whatsoever. Wouldn't you be upset? I know there isn't much you can do if you don't know which site you originally got an image from, but I am speaking most directly to those who have been taking from MMLS's galleries-- pictures that some of which cannot be found anywhere else on the web, and that have only been on this site for a short while. In other words, these people know where they came from. Again, we don't own these images, all we ask is that you give MMLS some credit. The only way to avoid Image Theft is to watermark the image. This means to place your site's name or logo on the image. At MMLS we chose NOT to do this because we want everyone to use them freely, and watermarks ruin the images. Our thanks is that we can't really prove that the images were taken because we didn't slap our name on them... And so visitors of MMLS, all I ask is that if you plan on using images from this site, be courteous and say where you got them- that's all.

Disclaimer: But where did we get all of our images to start with? Well naturally we got some ourselves, but plenty came from other sites. Doesn't that make MMLS just as bad? Well, as is stated on the gallery pages, a lot of it was collected BEFORE I ever had the idea of making this site, so I don't know where they all came from. For those that I do know, I give credit, such as the Capcom of Japan site, or MMAU's Shade of Blue. In any such case, Legends images were taken from Mega Man sites, not Legends sites. It is most definitely not cool to take a site's entire image collection to make your own of the same series. Also, images we have taken are often shrunk down, with the intenion of letting the original site be the only place with the nicest, largest one. We do respect other sites. Thanks for reading this.