The article is devoted to the study of issues of international legal regulation of relations in the sphere of copyright protection. First of all, the author’s attention is drawn to the increasing global trend towards synchronization of national regimes of protection of intellectual property rights, the starting point of which was made in the XIXth century with the adoption of the Berne Convention. The escalation of the problem in question is related to the Internet possibilities of instant data transfer to multiple remote users that leads to speed and a great scale of intellectual property results sharing. The author gives undeniable arguments that the search for solution of the problem of illegal use of works on the Internet will be a determining factor for the consolidation of the world community with the subsequent unification of legal regulation of cross-border copyright relations. The promising avenues of international cooperation in the examined field are the following: 1) creation of a global registry of Internet sites, access to which should be restricted because of intellectual property rights violations; 2) creation of a unified international database of copyright and related rights