The right given to the creators of the original work is termed as copyright. Copyrights laws are made in order to protect these original creators, authors etc. however as everything comes with certain drawbacks the drawback to copyrights is copyright infringement i.e. when someone tries to copy, duplicate, distribute the original work of another person without said consent of the creator. Now the chances of this infringement increases drastically in the digital world. The cyber space is more prone to infringements and thereby depriving these creators of their rights. In this paper the potential risk in cyber space for copyrights infringement as well the ways to protect the creators have been discussed. Furthermore some latest techniques which are being used have been elaborated to get an insight about its potential use. Although the laws mostly fail to protect these original creators but there are certain other ways or techniques to ensure that no infringement takes place which is also mentioned in this paper.
