Hello. I began watching the VRAINS dub a few weeks ago, but I had to stop watching when I got to the episode where they stole fanart. That incident reminded me of another show that used fanart for their show and that was South Park. They put Tweek x Craig yaoi fanart in their show and they asked fans to submit their art and watch the episode to see if their art made it into the show. What's the difference between the two that makes one of them look good and the what the other one did was bad?
South Park: The writers/producers got consent from artists to use their art on the show. Thus it was a mutual agreement.
Vrains: The producers did not ask for permission from the artist to put their art in the show. Without giving credit, a lot of people assumed that 4K made the art/edit itself (there are posts floating on tumblr and twitter on that image). So naturally, the original artist was upset (on twitter). Hence 4K are clearly the problem here. I also wouldn’t be surprised if this is straight up illegal but each country has it’s own laws. 4K has its history of shady stuff so this isn’t eye-opening for them to do stuff like this.