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What documents are needed to register copyright for a website design?
I plan to order a website design soon. I want the design to be copyrighted to me. What documents are required for this? Have you had a similar experience? Is it possible to issue any documents remotely (if the studio or freelancer is located in another city/country)?
It's just a shame if you spend a decent amount on a design (about 120 - 150k), then it will be resold or distributed for free.
ps I know that a similar question has already been asked here, but no one answered about what specific documents are needed.
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The site is a complex product, various elements of which can be protected by various legal instruments (ie, as trademarks, inventions, industrial designs, computer programs, databases, and other objects of copyright).
In order to document the rights to RIA (results of intellectual activity) belonging to you as a customer, stipulate them explicitly in the contract, and after completion of work, detail the result as much as possible, for example, as an annex to the work acceptance certificate, which may contain screenshots, a tree site, flowcharts of algorithms, listings, use cases, etc.
You will then have a certain amount of time to decide on how to patent your IP (six months for an invention, twelve months for an industrial design). Algorithms for obtaining and processing information can be patented as inventions, and graphic design elements can be patented as industrial designs.
The rights to text and some graphic elements of the site can be documented by depositing with or without publication in the depository of copyright objects (for example, such a service is available in the Russian State Library).
Computer programs and databases can be registered with the patent office by partial deposit in text form.
You can try to register logos, names and slogans with the patent office as trademarks (including three-dimensional, sound, etc.).
However, the main thing here is to decide whether you need all this, since the cost of a set of rights protection measures can many times exceed the amount you specified for development (about 120 - 150k).
Go to the regular patent office. The state-owned is more reliable and more confident (on the territory of the Russian Federation, of course. Well, ex-USSR in their countries), but more running around and misunderstandings. Commerce can be outright scammers and just intermediaries - they do everything through their people in government offices.
In general, this is enough. The rest is a game within the limits of errors. Where will you go if they still distribute? Probably in Court. And the court for open patents (again, I'm talking about the Russian Federation and the entire ex-USSR) somehow doesn't care. You can, if something happens, contact hosters and others like them, those third-party patents may well be accepted. But do you know how effective it is?
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