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I am starting a web business, which is still in the planning stage. We are about a week into development, and we have a skeletal web site up on a test server. We have our business plans pretty well drawn out at our project management site which uses Redmine, so all our ideas are contained in our database. All our ideas are either in our wiki or work tickets.

Our web site will probably not be up for the public to see for roughly a year from now. Do we need to wait until we've gone live or are really close to doing so in order to copyright?

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This portal provides great information on Copyright Laws, I guess you should check it and see if they have the exact answer to your question.

This other information can also be of help, it's from the U.S Copyright website.

Can I copyright my website? The original authorship appearing on a website may be protected by copyright. This includes writings, artwork, photographs, and other forms of authorship protected by copyright. Procedures for registering the contents of a website may be found in Circular 66, Copyright Registration for Online Works.

Can I copyright my domain name? Copyright law does not protect domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that has assumed the responsibility for domain name system management, administers the assignation of domain names through accredited registers.

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As standard you obtain creators copyright by simply creating the website.

You can buy additional copyright without the website going live however you could wait until the site goes live to ensure a longer copyright period (this depends what kind of license you purchase.)

So yes, you could get copyright for the website without it going live

regards

Craig

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