This article aims to identify the causes of plagiarism, and how from the legal point of view copyright can be protected, and how to raise awareness about its implementation, forcing people to see other possibilities for creation, encouraging to reinvent and not to copy, rather to generate scientific knowledge.This is why the general objective was to investigate the protection of copyright in comparative law at the Universidad Simón Bolívar-Cúcuta, which took into account Colombian legislation and Spanish Legislation, and for this an analysis was made taking into account the interpretative paradigm, since this is directed to human actions and social practice, and in turn helps the discovery and understanding of the phenomena, everything from the qualitative approach to understand the social reality, in this case to perform an analysis of the different concepts for what was used as sources of research, for the primary Colombian legal system, and internationally what is framed in the legal system of Spain , Being one of the first countries to enact a law for the protection of the copyright.And secondarily the agreements, agreements and deals where Colombia is a part.In addition to these we took into account the concepts of some key informants, such as teachers and students monitors of the tenth semester of law of the Universidad Simón Bolívar-Cúcuta.