The article studies the legal provisions on copyright in Vietnam related to rights to copy, distribute and communicate works. They are considered essential and are commonly used in the economic rights of authors and copyright holders, especially e-books. It is allowed to copy, distribute, and communicate works as well as exceptions to enable other subjects to use these economic rights. This shows a huge change so that Vietnam can keep up with copyright protection in particular and build a legal foundation in line with the requirements of international integration in intellectual property in general. The authors used the method of document research to clarify the content of the historical formation and development of provisions on cases from 1945 when Vietnam had its first Constitution up to now. In addition, the author also analyzes and evaluates the existing limitations in the current Vietnamese legal provisions on the cases in which it is allowed to copy, distribute and communicate works; measures to handle infringements; at the same time, propose solutions to complete orientation.