I must say that as someone who use to help choose some of the music for PBP, the idea of other segments were brought up. I realize that when I was doing it, there weren't really sountrack databases in one spot. But, the song ideas either came from our friends, music companies sending us stuff, and, an ocassional surf video (I would say dipping into other sports is fair game and it has been done to our industry as well). I remember choosing quite a few songs, only to find out that they were used in Mack Dog videos. I even remember a couple of songs being used in the same year (ante up in Propaganda, Fuel injected in Happy Dayz)
However, I can never remember anyone saying "yeah that was used in a movie before, but let's do it anyways. Fuck em. They'll never notice." The truth of the matter is the amount of videos we would watch from skiing, to snowboarding, to surfing, to any other sport was quite startling. So, while I can't get into the heads of the guys that are doing it now, I have a hard time believing that they are blatantly plagiarizing, but rather had a song in mind, not knowing whether they heard it somewhere or not, but wanting to have as good of a soundtrack without breaking the bank, so they can put more money into the shooting budget and have cool shots.
While that might not excuse everything, just remember, that the more people who watch your movie, the more sponsors, the more athletes, the more events, the more things that have nothing to do with skiing. And they are willing to do those things, not to sell out or to be greedy, but to be able to put more copies of cool ski movies in more peoples hands. And they inhibit one from doing those cross checks with other videos, because the time might not be there. It's important to understand that perspective before stating that a company needs a PPT presentation in originality. I think that's kind of ironic, btw, because I think this thread needs a PPT on originality.