Apparently you have never heard of "temp-track". It is very common and almost always used practice in filmmaking. You see, before the composer starts writing his/hers score the filmmakers use existing music, sometimes classic, sometimes other film scores to put in the scenes to see where and how long each and every cue will be. And most important to set the feeling of the scene. However the filmmakers (director and/or the producers) quite often gets more or less in love with the pre-existing music they use as temporary score and that quite often leads to them asking the composer to write as close as possible a score or a similar cue that sounds just like that temp-track music. So if the composer does not want to do that he/she will probably get fired and replaced by someone who is willing to do that. So that means that even if the composer more or less is stealing he/she is not to blame, they just do what their employer ask them to do.
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