The invention discloses a network multimedia copyright active following and monitoring system. By taking digital fingerprinting and copy detection technology as a core and closely combining with a conventional DRM system, a frame for discovering, following, administrating and monitoring illegal multimedia copies under a network environment is constructed and an active following mechanism, digital fingerprint generation and embedding technology supporting bulk capacity users, copy detection technology and copyright registration and administration technology are realized. The system comprises a characteristic database, a monitoring result database, a network media database, a digital fingerprint database, a copyright registration and management module, a digital copyright management module, a digital fingerprint detection module, a client module, a fingerprint certificate management module, a copyright monitoring module, a copy detection module, a network crawling module and a user query and display interface. Aiming at problems existing in multimedia digital copyright, the invention provides the network multimedia copyright active following and monitoring system, which realizes the copyright active following mechanism and overcomes the shortcoming of the passiveness of a conventional digital fingerprint system.