Peter Breiner is a composer/arranger that was asked by the Beijing Olympic Committee to create arrangements of all the national anthems that would be played at the Olympics. He did. Then the BOC decided they didn’t want them. He didn’t get paid, and the Beijing Orchestra recorded his arrangements for the Olympics.
Philip Kennicott, culture critic for the WaPo, writes:
More to the point, the Beijing orchestra is using Breiner’s ideas so blatantly that it would be accused of plagiarism if its arrangers submitted their orchestration as original work in any respectable conservatory. It isn’t just the rockets’ red glare: Breiner’s basic conception of the whole piece has been copied.
Good thing they’re part of the WTO.