It is a known thing in the tech industry that website builders and app developers most times copy each other and copy an existing or renowned website or code while making theirs. You will see two websites with almost the same features and you can tell that one version was clearly copied from the other which may be the original.
I have seen many foreign based crypto websites and even news blogs with the Nigerian imitated versions; the same interphase and the same outlook.
Acts like these, although prevalent in the tech industry are completely illegal and it is even criminal in some parts of the world.
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If you copy elements or even an element from another website while building yours, you are infringing on the original creator’s trademark and also infringing their copyright. Copying and republishing parts of a website without the permission of the copyright owner will generally constitute copyright infringement.
The type of intellectual property protection available for app developers and website builders is copyright. For you to legally protect your websites and mobile applications and assume their legal ownership, you will need to apply for the copyright. Copyright in most parts of the world is always represented with the logo ©? while trademark is represented with the ™? logo.
As you copyright your websites and app codes, you can as well trademark the name of the app or the website. So trademark and copyright protection are both available for you as a website builder and app developer to protect that brainchild you have poured out into the site or app.
You can be an amazing and renowned tech bro or tech sis with great and mind-blowing codes to your credit but the unfortunate thing is that your legal ownership of those codes is in question and at risk and can be stolen from you by a copycat if you do not copyright the codes and take an extra action to trademark their names.
If you have watched the movie; “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, you will understand more about the importance of proving that you are a legal owner of an idea or a code or you can lose everything. (I highly recommend it).
Take action today and protect your tech brainchild and distinguish yourself from others by copyrighting those websites and codes.
