Your Thoughts On Blatant Plagarism In VGM

As I see it, there's nothing wrong with music that's clearly inspired by another piece. And, for that matter, there's nothing wrong with pilfering and re-using your own stuff, as long as it doesn't lead to laziness and sloth.

After all, all music is to some extent inspired by what went before. To insist in complete and utter originality (an impossibility) while decrying every similar sound as blatant plagiarism seems small-minded. So what if there are a bar or two from Mozart in that Final Fantasy game? The original's been mutated, reinterpreted, served as the impetus for something new. So what if Uematsu recycled some of his early bloopy tunes later on? The same thing is happening.

Add to that the fact that none of the artists that are being named as "plagiarlized from" are losing anything--no one is going to stop listening to pop music in favor of VGM that sounds vaguely similar.

I think--at most--the musical inspiration(s) a composer blatantly appropriates should be listed in the credits.

Jam it back in, in the dark.