How to protect a site from appropriation of it to itself?

Question

Web development

Good afternoon.
I work in a company (unofficially) and make a large online store.
All work is on me (design, layout, programming).
When I completely finish the project, there is a possibility that I will not be hired for an official position...
ps Why didn't I get hired sooner?! Well, because it’s not profitable for them to keep a specialist after the store opens, at least this is my opinion.
The bottom line is that most companies leave their link in the footer, like they made a website, they are great and so on. If my employer does not want to employ me, someone else must change something on the site, they will turn to the studio, and for example, it can say "Well, like, we are doing work for you here, we will put our logo like we made the site." How can you protect yourself from this? Somehow I don’t want someone to appropriate my work and wind up ratings in the city. + even if I put my link with the logo, no one bothers them to remove it ... Who thinks about this?
Thanks to all!

Answer 1

If you work for a company and it pays for it, the site is the property of the company.
You can leave a link below (if the employer doesn't mind), but you can't influence anything else.
And, well, or you can throw the site into a closed git repository and pour it into production from there. But it's just a petty little trick

Answer 2

1. If everything is in words (and they behave decently (since they pay)) talk and agree about your link or lack of one from others ...
2. Also explain that it is better not to scatter links and this can affect SEO ... or that the company will get through the link the weight from your site for nothing...
3. increase your value - prepare a plan for uniform improvements and improvements, make your value higher (of course, work if done well, if not - it's time to improve quality)
4 even if they go to the company - prepare instructions and documentation for the project, believe me, such an approach can play into your hands even with this client ... you will show yourself as a good and caring specialist
5. If authorship is important to you - make a portfolio with the client's signature (review, whatever), in which your employer will describe that you created the first framework, the first version, which launched a large and profitable project ... you can document or make an act
Approach all issues like a programmer... if you have a task - solve it like a programmer - with the help of all available means, doing it well and leaving behind noble ground...

Answer 3

Themselves cheburator.
Draw up and sign a contract.
Any other attempts are illegal and will only hurt you on the head.

Answer 4

If you are an employee, then usually (depending on which contract, but most often) the result of your work belongs to your employer. That is, if you did something during working hours and by order of the employer - this site, its code and design does not belong to you, but to your employer.
Another thing is that you remain the AUTHOR or creator of this work / product / code. But at the same time, the customer is not obliged to allow you to sign. In some cases, he may even prohibit you from posting this work in your portfolio.
The third story is that you don't have any signed papers. In theory, you can try to drag e-mail and logs from chats to court, but in practice, spend a lot of time and effort on something that is not clear.

Answer 5

There is no good technical solution to protect copyrights/links on a site that is entirely under the control of another party. Even if the abstract black box will give links to you as the author in the footer, you can replace them with a proxy web server on the way to users.
“When I completely finish the project” - then, in theory, the most important part of the work will begin - support for a working online store. Something will break, something will want to be changed, improved, added.
Do you work "unofficially" in a company - no contracts, money in an envelope? Then no one owes anyone anything. Transfer the store to your own hosting, close the repo with the code, demand that the other party fulfill its obligations.

Answer 6

Ioncube Loader . With it, you can encrypt some parts of the code.

Answer 7

that is, you are now working for free, how long has this been going on? Usually, to evaluate a person, you need a maximum of a week (at least for the front-end), if they keep you for a long time, then it’s generally strange, there should be some kind of minimum salary, unless of course you are a junior who thinks that he made mego a cool site in 2 months, but any the other will do it in 2 days, in which case you are still studying and employers can have two questions about paying for such work.
I don’t urge you to do this, but if I worked even for a month in June, showed the results and made a ready-made site, after which they didn’t pay me anything at all, I would delete the site by all possible means.

Answer 8

As in a joke - you need to either put on trousers or take off your cross.
Either relationships are documented (including property and copyrights) or according to the concepts - who will steal what from whom first.

Answer 9

When I was working on websites and there were "misunderstandings" with payment, I always left a backdoor for myself

Answer 10

In fact, everything is tritely simple. Leave the admin behind you. You can close access to the site at any time.