Article 2 17 of the Criminal Law stipulates that an individual who commits the crime of copyright infringement shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. "The amount of illegal income is huge" and "there are other particularly serious circumstances", please refer to the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights. Once a student's graduation thesis is found to be plagiarized, it will be rewritten and graduation will be postponed. If the circumstances are serious, he will also bear legal responsibility. If you are worried that the referenced materials constitute plagiarism, you can go to the relevant websites to search first, and then submit them to the school.