First, it annoys me that skaters will site black swan and never mention Tchaikovsky when they are skating to the black swan soundtrack, because they are (for the most part) using the music that Tchaikovsky actually wrote. I would feel better about it if skaters using the black swan soundtrack sited something like, "Black Swan by Clint Mansell after Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky" which would be long, but give credit where credit is due.
I completely disagreed with the second half of your comment - I love the Black Swan program already - but I just wanted to address this: on Max's ISU bio, Tchaikovsky is mentioned, just as Pavarotti is mentioned for his SP. I merely refer to them as Black Swan and Nessun Dorma for the sake of brevity.
May be clueless of me, but why can't they have a date you have to get your music choices for the next season in by (like dissertation titles) to be cleared? Any two skaters have the same music, the first person gets to keep it and the later skater has to make a new choice. This could be well before actual choreography and training begins.
But how early do you go? We can figure that Max started work on these programs probably in February. That's very, very early. Meanwhile, other skaters might not have even given a thought to next season yet because this one's still going.
I don't think it's a good idea. It doesn't happen a lot that you get so many skaters skating the same music in the same season. Just somehow this season it got really weird, with no logical explanation.