But after parents protested at the Dec . 11 school board meeting, the superintendent, Dr . Michael Rooney, sent a memorandum home saying he had " reluctantly " directed Pelton to deduct just 600 of 1, 500 points from the plagiarizers'projects, and to cut its value in the overall grade from 50 percent to 30 percent.
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But after parents protested at the Dec . 11 school board meeting, the superintendent, Michael O . Rooney, sent a memorandum home saying he had " reluctantly " directed Pelton to deduct just 600 of 1, 500 points from the plagiarizers'projects, and to cut its value in the overall grade from 50 percent to 30 percent.
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According to U . S . copyright law, in the absence of a confession, musicians who accuse others of stealing their work must prove " access " the alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song and " similarity " the songs must share unique musical components . though it is difficult to come to a definition of what is " similarity ".
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In other classes I teach, it's simply the misinformation-and of course, that's just humorous ( the undergrad gets the low grade, because s / he took the wrong info from Wikipedia and it's obvious-so that ban is well understood by undergrads, but they do it CONSTANTLY anyway-I have no problem with that, makes it easy to find plagiarizers / cheaters ).
