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Copyright law, at least at this time, appears to be the most important type of intellectual property protection applicable to the Internet. Copyright laws apply to works on the Internet and protect creative, original expression "fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which it can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of a machine or device". Copyright protection however, dose not extend to "any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Copyright does not give its owners the right to sell or distribute works; rather it is the right to exclude others. Courts will probably eventually develop the notion of implied license in connection with the Web, but it is clear that there is some type of implied license granted by anyone who set up a web site and makes it open to the public. Such license would surely includes normal web activity such-viewing web pages, clicking on links, and seeing the web text on the computer screen. But there has to be limites. The copyright Act provides the public with a number of privileges against an otherwise possibly successful assertion of infringement. By far the most important of these privileges. In this writing, I focused on the characteristics of copyright infringement on line due to the spread of internet, the protection content of the present law and its limit and relief of the infringement and proposed its problems and solutions. The of this paper are as follows : Ⅰ. Introduction Ⅱ. A Scope of Protection of Copyright on the Internet Ⅲ. A Limits of Protection of Copyright on the Internet Ⅳ. Conclusion