質問
A while ago I set up a website that helps with automatic money-management when doing shopping and banking on the web. I am not running it publicly at the moment, but some of my friends and family have tried it and they're all very happy with it as a product and they said that I should make it available publicly and make some money off of it. However I only have little time to work on the website ended team of professional developers could set up a similar products in no time. Is there any way to protect the website as it is right now from copying by others?
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Your website is not protectable in itself by the IP law. However, some elements of your site consisting in works and creations such as the textual content, the interface, the graphics... are certainly already "naturally" protected under copyright law, the mere fact of their creation (subject to originality) and no specific steps are required (except a copyright filing when it is possible, depending on the country, to strengthen your rights).
Moreover, some of these elements - I am thinking of the graphic in particular - could also be protected as design patents and - cumulatively - figurative trademarks, which means filings and recordings with the considered Intellectual Property Office.
Finally, if the functioning of your website uses - or is the result of - the implementation of software applications and / or algorithmic resulting of your work, these ones, under certain conditions, can be protected by patent law or copyright law according to what the considered law allows to apply (in Europe, software and its technical documentation fall under copyright law but the patent way is not excluded if the software in included in a kind of process, system consisting in a technical creation producing technical effects... ; in the United States and Canada, the patent is the normal way of protection for the softwares in itself …).
You should tell us a bit more to deepen all these points ...
Sincerely yours,
Simon
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