> I realise that Horner is guilty of theft here, but are you really saying
> that it makes no difference that Holst did the same?? Without meaning to
> justify Horner's steal, I'm just trying to put things in a fair
> perspective. I mean, there has been a lot of fuss made in the decade since
> Braveheart about how Horner pinched the melody from Holst. But in the
> near-century since The Planets, it is never admitted that the
> "Jupiter Hymn" itself is obviously a plagiarism/recycling of an
> earlier work. By another composer.

Completely irrelevant to this case. This is a site for discussing film music. We are talking about James Horner not Gustav Holst.