Well, maybe if he did, in this case it is not a crime.
Bowie has been known to use all kind of musical things he liked for his own music.
Not very different from Moz, I would say, but I am grateful they did steal it.
When you steal and make it your own and recreate it, it becomes something new.
When you just borrow it and copy it than for everybody it is very recognizable as not being something new and authentic as from your own creativety but from somebody else.
Just copying and borrowing, and when you borrow you will have to pay the interest.
When you steal and make it your own by recreating, you don't.
By the way, nowadays it has become very difficult to strive for authenticity when so much music, photograpy and films and books are available on the internet.
I think it is important to get your inspiration from any source available and that it is possible to create something new, more or less.
The self imposed rule to be authentic at any cost will not assure you to be really authentic.
