I was working for a game publisher that got somewhat notorious for plagiarizing other games. Here's just one of many similar tales of music that happened there.

Working on a hip-hop themed game, the composer assigned to that game was going nuts as they were asking him a complete rewrite of the title music for the eleventh or twelfth time. All attempts were right, the composer was nailing exactly right every time, but the boss just didn't "feel" them.

Finally, fed up with the composer's "inability to perform", the boss asked to write the title music myself, and discharge the composer of the project. I knew the boss's thought process when things were going like this, so I went bold: I took a half-hour to do a note-for-note cover of one of Dr Dre's song. Shamelessly. As he listened to it, the boss screamed: "Aaah finally, there you go! That's perfect!" . Then more calmly: "Now just change a note or two so we don't get sued."