Tracking the roots of plagiarism results of the initial international survey

In already published joint papers written by the Rheinischen Fachhochschule Köln - University of to Applied Sciences and the University of Rijeka the reasons for the intellectual fraud were analyzed. This study about the intellectual fraud becomes extended by inclusion of other international partners which are contributing to the study by including the own national and organizational view to the subject. In this paper new results, which give an overview to the national legislation regarding the intellectual fraud policy in Austria, Serbia, Croatia and Germany is presented, as well as to the institutional (university) position to the subject of the intellectual fraud is presented. Moreover, the institutions of the project partners with regard to the university´s plagiarism policy and honor code regulations as well as the national law regulations are explored.