Copyright is a property right which subsists in virtually every kind of work (written, printed, electronic), as well as in the typographical arrangement of published editions, and in sound recordings, films, broadcasts or cable programmes. Copyright protection is automatic, giving control of the right of copying to the authors/creators or to their assignees/transferees.

From: http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/finding-info/copyright/lib-copyright-definition.asp

Plagiarism: the adoption of pieces of text, ideas, designs and theories from others without mentioning the source. Fraud is more broad than plagiarism, for instance, cheating during exams or doing nothing in a work group and yet profit from a collective mark both fall within fraud.

From : http://www.library.tudelft.nl/tulib/glossary/index.htm

At UNIGE

In Switzerland

Elswhere

Laws and official websites

• Swiss Federal Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights
• Copyright and Related Rights (World Intellectual Property Organization)
• Website of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Tools against plagiarism

• Turnitin 
• Damocles

Codes of ethics

• Charte d'éthique et de déontologie UNIGE 
• University of Lausanne
• Master of advanced studies (MAS) in Business Law - MBL