The Buttertones

Monday Music: Are cover songs considered academic dishonesty?

By: Andrea Renney, Arts Editor  I’m not sure if this is specific to the computing science department, but my course syllabi always include an exhaustive section detailing SFU’s Academic Dishonesty policies. On top of that, my first year professors absolutely drilled the threat of being caught cheating into our impressionable little brains. As such, the fear of plagiarizing has become so deeply ingrained in me that it’s even seeping into this week’s edition of Monday Music. Could a cover of a song be considered plagiarism? Would SFU determine that a cover violates the Student Academic Integrity Policy, giving the covering…

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