Depending on various available legislations, a victim of a website cloning may address a complaint on grounds of cyber legislation infringement, that can have a criminal component, as well as a civil one, for damages recovery, if the host of the website cloning is identifiable.įor exemplification purposes, in UAE, our firm has filed a couple of criminal complaints benefiting victims of website cloning, under Federal Law No.
Usually, website cloning has a cross border component since cloned websites can be used anywhere and can be cloned from anywhere in the world.
Of course, the immediately available recovery tools are the technical ones, by this understanding complaints to the registrar of the clone website or enhanced website security, host tracing (if possible) or even requests to Google for content delisting on grounds of copyright concerns (known as Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaints). Knowing that many website design tools use open-source data, the process of website cloning does not seem to come to an end. In the business world, we have seen many cases of clients whose websites have been cloned and used by various perpetrators, in bad faith, in order to impersonate partnerships or ties with the victim, mostly for getting credibility and finally receiving money or other advantages from the market. Whereas the beneficiary of the clone would not need to have the scripts re-written and would benefit from a “ready-made” marketing tool, the process has sensitive associated legal implications. Website cloning is generally referred to as the process of creating a replica of an existing website, or simply put, copying a website or its design and associated elements.
Whereas a good and attractive website has all the prerequisites to have a strong impact on the market share and positioning of a firm, it has the drawback of exposing important and not always protected content to infringements. The newest and most effective marketing tool for business exists nowadays in the digital world.
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