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How do you protect intellectual property on the Internet? - yz - 01-26-2013 03:24 AM
If I start my own website on the Internet and have an idea that's really good what will stop others from taking it and using it for themselves? I know that patents can be purchased, but that's really costly so I was wondering if there were any other alternatives?
Also, if someone were to make another auction site like eBay or social networking site like Facebook, could eBay or Facebook file a lawsuit against them?
- lotsbull - 01-26-2013 03:32 AM
good luck its like the wild west
- Honestly, now - 01-26-2013 03:32 AM
There's nothing to stop someone competing with ebay or facebook. They just have such a large market share that it's pretty much impossible. They are monopolies.
As for intellectual rights, anything you publish on the net is automatically copyrighted. This goes for content, I don't know about structure of a website. But I assure you--you haven't discovered a way to assemble html code that hasn't already been done before.