It's not called "stolen" any more. It is known as "sampling." When one of my kids heard Buffalo Springfield's For What it's Worth recently, she noted, "I like Run DMC's (or whoever the hell it was) version better." And Springsteen adapted Pink Cadillac from some Motown group who's name escapes me, but he did a hell of a job with it - Peter Gunn resemblance and all.