How to prove to the buyer their rights to the program?

Question

Copyright

Hello everyone, my friend and I are developing and selling a script, often there are such buyers who ask "Prove that the program is yours and that you own the exclusive rights to it." Frankly, questions of this kind lead us into a stupor. Please help how to explain to customers that the program of our development

Answer 1

You can split the script into two parts. Publish one part on githab under an open source license, and sell the other. The open source part can be some module that is interesting only to other coders (let them put the stars to sleep), but does not solve the practical problems of your clients, so your closed part remains a valuable commodity. When a client is interested in your authorship, you answer: "Offend! We are the same guys who created the module that underlies all such solutions today" and send greetings to the client from your github page.

Answer 2

Write your contact details in about/help.
Show that you own the site where you sell the script.
www.whois-service.ru

Answer 3

Copyright for programs usually belongs to the author on the basis of paragraph 3 of Article 1228 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and due to the absence of the fact of transfer of exclusive property rights to third parties. Registration of software products and obtaining documentary evidence is not a mandatory, but a recommended action for copyright protection.

Answer 4

Try to enter from the other end.
Talk to the questioners and clarify why they are asking.
It may well be that someone from the management is trite when buying software requires (there is something like that in the legislation and profile instructions - as usual muddy). Then there is one way to do it. And if they are seriously interested - have you downloaded the code somewhere and are now passing it off as your own - then the question is another