Main aspects of intellectual property protection in the implementation of distance learning are studied. The relevance based on the need of implementation distance learning and the use of the opportunities offered by e-learning. The problem of the protection intellectual property in distance education. It is determined that technical means should provide a program of students' work on the content of the educational material (program of its learning process), a combination of training and education functions, strengthening the control and self-control of the process and its results of the process of learning knowledge, assistance in
implementing the ideas of differential and problem learning.
