Is it illegal? I'm scared!

Hello,

I am a 14-year old man. I sold a site to a company. And after weeks or a month, I created a site with the same concept of the site. Or a somewhat a rival of the site I just sold. Then, they contacted me that should I work with them or close my latest site? They said it is illegal and they are preparing now two lawyers for that! I am really scared and its really unfair because I don't have any lawyer and I'm not that rich to go against them. But I have this feeling that it is not illegal, I haven't signed any single contract with them, ever! And the other option, work with them, was really suspicious for me because are they just scaring me or what?

I'm not sure about this. Because I am just new and young in this industry. Can someone explain it to me? Is it illegal or not? I need your help DP'ers!


Regards

 

Hi,

No its not illegal to create a site of the same nature unless one or both of these things occured.

1. When you sold the site you signed a contract stipulating that you would not go into the same business as them (normally for a set period of time)

2. You are not using any copyrighted information your sold them on your own site, i.e. custom themes, content etc..

If its none of the above your fine.

 

Wrong forum, but anyway. They might just be scaring you. I did a similar thing with http://www.stickified.com and http://www.mysticky.net, and I got off ok. As long as the concepts are not protected in any way, you're ok I think.

Why not ask for some information as to which laws they are claiming you have broken..?

-H.

 

Hahaha 14 year old boy ya mean

 

Maybe he gets a lot of ladies?

 

I have no contracts with them. Not a single one.

Yes, i am 14. But my online informations need to be legal. So, I used my father's. And if its really 'illegal', my father will be jailed.

 

No contracts great... your 75% their. What about number "2", are you using any of the same content or themes that you sold them?

 

sounds serious but you have no contract with them so dont worry about them. they offer you a job to work with them? sounds cool

 

Send them over to DP we will have a field day with them

 

The buyer is probably a 15 year old bully and doesn't have money for lawyers either,lol

Sounds like they are scared your site will do better than theirs.

 

ahaha

Its the teenage business "man" revolution.

 

donot worry

all the problem is always finished when you

start >>> shutdown the computer

no one can make any thing

they donot catch credit card theifs do they will care for 14 years old boy


ps : it i snot ethilical to sell website and creat another one like it

because buyer but the idea of the site

he can pay to a coder but i think website buyers always buy the idea

 

Sure sounds like that.

 

your 14 they can do zilch
they are just bullying - they got nothing -lol-probably not even any lawyers

 

As long as you aren't using any of their intellectual property or violating a contract, you should be alright.

If they offered you a job, then they are probably bluffing, but I am not a lawyer. You can always call a local lawyer up and ask them their opinion of the situation (to be safe, this is probably the best idea).

As for 'intellectual property', if you sold a site which had your original content to them, it would probably have been better to have a contract drawn up, in order to protect yourself (and apparently, your dad).

 

hey can you show me the website man
and how much did you sell it for..

thanks