[bigiain]

> Not saying Capcom should profit without crediting the original artist.

Capcom "crediting the original artist" would have made this even worse for them, it'd then be a slam dunk admission of copyright infringement.

You cannot use a copyright work for free then "credit the original artist" to shirk your legal responsibility to negotiate a license to use the work.

There is no "grey area" here. (Arguably there _should_ be, and the hardline copyright stance the actual law takes is mostly Mickey Mouse's lawyers and lobbyists fault, but that's the world we live in...)