How to protect a website ans also how to attain monopoly?

[Quietbike238]

hi i have very god idea and it's a website i can get the coders in my city i can hire them and build the website But how to protect it from anyone to misuse it I meant will there be Copyrights or Patents how to protect it and attain monopoly ??

[Sarcasticrock637]

Meet with a patent attorney who has experience with software/Internet/Web..
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[bcnu]

Your software is automatically copyrighted (as a literary work), your original images as well. You would need a patent to protect any new and non-obvious inventions used or described on your website, for which you would need a properly qualified patent attorney.

Once a patent is issued, you can (in theory) enforce it to prevent others from making, using, selling or importing your claimed invention, but only in a country where you have successfully applied for and been granted a patent, and only if you have paid any maintenance fees to keep it "alive and enforceable."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_application