Can you copyright a idea for a website before hiring a website developer?
November 7, 2009 - 2:00 pm
Ideas cannot be copyrighted, though some ideas can be patented.
If you want to protect your work, have the developer sign a
non-disclosure agreement before discussing your idea.
Also, you want to make sure that the website developer’s work
belongs to you alone by having him assign the copyright
for the site to you.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Ideas cannot be copyrighted, though some ideas can be patented.
If you want to protect your work, have the developer sign a
non-disclosure agreement before discussing your idea.
Also, you want to make sure that the website developer’s work
belongs to you alone by having him assign the copyright
for the site to you.
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Not a lawyer, but I every job I’ve worked on has a non-disclosure agreement and an assignment of copyright.