Maybe so, Tony. However, could we not say the same for humans?

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

T.S. Eliot

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

Oscar Wilde

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Pablo Picasso

And this is before we begin to consider the collective unconscious.