When I publish my app in the Appstore, should I copyright it? According to this link: https://www.apppartner.com/protect-app-lawyers-simple-breakdown/ , a copyright can protect an app’s source code from being directly copied and republished as someone’s own new app with maybe one line of code that is different. It costs $1000 to copyright so it is a rather expensive decision, but may be a good precaution.
Has anyone published and copyrighted?
Is the source code as easily viewable if it was built on Bubble?
In the US, you automatically get a copyright of any content or code you write (additional details). Going through the US government to copyright it may add strength to your position in some cases but it’s not at all required - you already own the copyright for your works.
Run away from anyone whose 1st piece of legal advice is to spend your limited resources copyrighting your code. I’m not joking - this is a huge red flag. This could be an activity you’d do if you’re a big company with a product that’s already worth millions of dollars, but it’s certainly not all the valuable and it sounds like your $1000 would be much better used on either 1) building a product customers love, or 2) finding more customers to pay for your product.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I didn’t know that things like this are automatically copyrighted. It makes sense since I’ve seen musicians debut a new song at their concert and it doesn’t seem like they were ever worried about someone in their audience copyrighting it for themselves simply for listening to it. So this must apply to apps to. The fact that its published in the App Store probably also serves as a record of documenting who published and date of publishing, so it adds to the automatic copyright.
