How to protect your ideas, from your website developers

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by martymcfly, Nov 21, 2006.

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    As stated above, is there a legal protocol one can follow, or some type of confidentiality agreement, to prevent programmers, web developers from disclosing or using the ideas you hire them to produce ?
     
    martymcfly, Nov 21, 2006 IP
  2. slipxaway

    slipxaway Active Member

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    You could have a lawyer draft a Non-Disclosure Agreement which they would have to sign. This is fairly common practice. As for preventing them from using your ideas and making a similar site themselves, I don't really see you being able to stop that. Non compete seems reasonable in most businesses, but when you look at the business of web developing, it bomes a bit iffy. The truth is, as unique as you think your idea is, it probably isn't... Web developers get clients with ideas all the time, a lot of them are the same. So it wouldn't make financial sense for a developer to sign a non-compete when next week he may have 2 clients who come to him asking for the same thing. Now he legally can't perform his job... Ideas really aren't protected intellectual property, unless you get that idea patented.
     
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  3. Dave Zan

    Dave Zan Well-Known Member

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    Which isn't possible. But the manifestation of that idea might be. :D
     
    Dave Zan, Nov 21, 2006 IP
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    slipxaway Active Member

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    Well, yeah, thats what I meant :)
     
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    confidnetality agreements are likely your best bet. If you bid on projects through Rent A Coder for example u can make coders fill in a Non disclosure form before work starts.
     
    Olback, Nov 22, 2006 IP
  6. martymcfly

    martymcfly Peon

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    hmm patenting the manifestation of the idea. lol.
    I like the sound of that.

    Thanks for the info guys
     
    martymcfly, Nov 23, 2006 IP