How to legally protect the site from copying?

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alleasy2015-01-31 22:03:15

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alleasy, 2015-01-31 22:03:15

What to do if the site is stolen, where to contact?

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ivkol, 2015-01-31
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you can learn something here in the comments, although the question is the opposite

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Sergey Petrikov, 2015-02-01
@RicoX

In sportloto, try it, but it’s better of course to go to court.

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Nutterix, 2015-02-02
@Nutterix

You can always go to court.
It is better to find out for what purpose your site was copied.
1) if you copied it for sale as a template on some service (such as themeforest.net/) - write to the service administration a claim that the service contains content that violates your exclusive rights. The administration of the service will deal with this issue much faster than your case will be considered in court.
2) if you copied and posted the template on a third-party site - then look at the situation, what kind of site. If it looks like your site template has been copied by a person who, under the contract, maintains the site of a third-party company, then by sending a claim to such an office, it is highly likely that it will simply oblige its contractor to replace the new site template (borrowed from you) so as not to become a target to litigate with you.
If someone copied your design "for themselves", then the situation is this: either the person agrees to the same potential adverse consequences that can become a reality for him and indicated above, or rejects your claims / ignores you.
If the claims are unsuccessful, then, of course, you can go to court, but here is the next moment - where is the defendant located, in Russia or not?
If in Russia, then by winning the court, you can really force the violator to execute the court decision and eliminate the violation of your rights (and if you try hard, you can also get good compensation at the same time from such a violator).
And if the violator is a foreign citizen living abroad? Ready to sue abroad for your website?
So there can be a lot of pitfalls here. It all depends on the specifics. In any case, you must have sufficient evidence that you really have exclusive rights to what you will complain about.