Journalism of Bangladesh is enough establishing. The media of Bangladesh refers to the print, broadcast, and online mass media available in Bangladesh. The Constitution guarantees press freedom and freedom of expression within “reasonable restriction”, though some media outlets have been harassed. The Bangladeshi media’s rank is dropped to 146 in 2018 from its position of 144 in 2016 out of total 180 countries on the Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index, with 1st being most free. As the global media is taken over by the emergence of super-fast communication technologies the model of 24-hour news cycle of the traditional media has given the audience or readers’ demands of as soon as it happens news. The traditional model of journalism has been facing an immense challenge in the race against the immediacy factor as new communication technologies as well as the internet has changed the structure of journalism radically. Although online media in more developed countries has managed to cope up with the demands of the future, developing nations are still thriving to adapt with the advents of new technologies. Online journalism in Bangladesh is not lagging behind regarding utilizing the advents to the fullest. Traditional news media have been conscious of integrating online outlets to keep up with the digital race. In fact, the race is pretty intense as all major media now exist offline as well as online platforms including their social media counterparts. To present a portrayal of the situation of copyrights in the online news media in Bangladesh reviews several types of research related to intellectual property rights in Bangladesh and analyzes several cases where the question of copyright violation was raised. The selection of the cases is deliberate. The incidents analyzed here have been found reported in various online news media, social media, and blogs. For authentication, only cases that were verified by the authors were selected. For a couple of cases found in a random search for allegations of copyright violation, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) database was looked into.