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Could someone simply save off my site, re-type the content a bit, substitute some graphics and have themselves a nice site with excelent on-page SEO?
But what about site structure, information architecture, page layout, navigation, html coding and all that good stuff?
Most of this cannot get any copyright protection on its own. Some *really creative* html coing might be able to qualify, but you are a lot better off pursuing that with things that are actual code, such as javascript.
Where all that stuff plays in is when they do a derivative work analysis and they have actually copied any protectable stuff.
Could someone simply save off my site, re-type the content a bit, substitute some graphics and have themselves a nice site with excelent on-page SEO?
It would all depend on what they replaced. If they just reworded your content, then that would generally be considered a derivative work. If they take the site layout of your site about tulips, and use it to create a site about redwoods, then you would be unlikely to have any protection.
