Isn't the whole point of Terry Prachett's works to create witty and endearing satire? I always read his books as him looking at our world and reality through the perspective of a very intelligent, childlike mind, that questions and rejects our world as for being nonensical and through Discworld, he makes a world that makes a lot more sense even if it appears absolutely bonkers. To Discworld, we are the weirdos. That is what I really enjoyed about his books. He forces you to think about the absurdity of our reality by asking frankly ridiculous questions and then through his clever storytelling and social and political commentary, he always manages to deliver a well thought out point that makes you appreciate all kinds of facettes of life.

In the case of Terry Prachett, the theft of ideas is the entire point and not a natural bi product of being a creative.

As well, there is rarely ever an original form of art

Please reread what you wrote.

from the first arranging of some feathers, or charcoal finger strokes in some cave a hundred thousand years ago, EVERY new thing, color, stroke, note arrangement, word composition, has been original. Some of these, of course, have been used as a basis or inspiration, or part of newer artistic expressions. Often, it's nature that provides the inspiration. La Sagrada Familia cathedral is inspired by these stalagmites children (and some adults) make by dropping watery sand down a mound, for example.

It's like saying that when some hominin drew a circle in the sand, and another who saw him drew a square, the second one copied him. Well, you could say the 2nd copied the moving finger in the sand, but it fucking invented the square. Yeah, I know, Pyrite et Al. would like a word.

Michael Jackson literally cloned these moves and style. Almost 100%.

Although there is a fine (blurry?) line between inspiration and imitation, MJ was waaaay inside the imitation demarcation.

Stealing a bar, or a concept, or a sample, all are really normal, as they're transforming the art. They're meant to help you remember the old piece with a little nostalgia.

He took 100% of the choreography here from a movie that was hardly seen in the US. This is not to say he wasn't talented at it. But you throw that together with a moonwalk and a few other pieces and you have 100% of his stage presence.

Don't know what you're talking about, Shakespeare wrote the first story about two people falling in love. That not ending well, also Shakespeare original.

You sound confident, but no...

"Not quite the same" is frankly, respectfully, a semantic bullshit position here. All of what Jackson did was 99.7% the spirit of this Fosse performance. Period.

Further your point about rap is off as well because they don't "steal", they sample - meaning they license the use with legal permission OR they pay in court after the fact. It's listed in the liner notes and credit is given directly, unlike with Jackson and Fosse as I'd never once heard or read this growing up.

So again, you sound confident, while being very wrong.