The article considers the problem of copyright protection. More and more attention is paid to intangible property. The main components of intangible property is intellectual property, which includes such protected objects as copyright and related right, trademarks, inventions, industrial samples, selection achievements. The article says that the Internet is harmful and, simultaneously, a useful phenomenon that is firmly established in our lives. Users of the global web are divided into two camps: some is looking for information, entertainment and services, others are providing this information, entertainment and services. As for the norms that would regulate all processes on the Internet – they simply do not exist today. As a result, infringement of copyright in the network is a regular phenomenon, it is very difficult to combat and, sometimes, simply useless. The article emphasizes that no state has laws on the regulation of legal relations in the Global Network, which provides very broad opportunities for users to uncontrolled reproduction, copying and further distribution of objects of the right. It is practically impossible to limit the Internet to the framework of the law: initially, no one simply had any thoughts about regulating activities in an independently developing network. Thousands of misdemeanors (slander, extremist activity, etc.) occur on the Internet today. As for copyright infringement in the network – they almost do not differ from violations outside the virtual life: plagiarism, illegal distribution of information protected by copyright and so on.