Legal Question in Technology Law in Michigan
Web site protection
Is it possible to protect a web site from being copied, either in its content, format or basic concept. I realize you can't copyright an idea, but once it's been created into a website, is it protectable and how can it be protected?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Web site protection
You cannot stop someone from copying the files once they appear in the users browser. There are programming tricks to make it difficult, but even disabling the right click is useless, because the source code is always available. There are directory protections you can put in, you can trace users through your site and create evidence of copying, but at the end of the day there is no practical way to stop copying.
The copyright attaches at the moment of writing. I don't know that it's useful to trademark items in websites, since they chance so frequently. Copying an entire site (or large chunks of it) should be dealt with in court,--provided it's worth the cost.
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