We offer a complete legal service to European businesses going online, including protection of intellectual property rights.
Technology cannot prevent criminals and lazy bloggers from grabbing content from your online presence. Obfuscating text by wrapping it inside JavaScript code makes the source of a web page unreadable by humans, but unfortunately also by search engines and other computers.
As search engines rely on textual content to rank a site, it is of crucial importance that it remains readable. JavaScript obfuscation therefore is not an option.
Hiding text by using the appropriate CSS code is not effective, as CSS cannot obfuscate the source, which remains readable by both humans (by viewing the actual page code in the browser — View menu > View Source) and computers, including search engines and screen scrapers.
The only way to prevent theft of online content is to monitor the web for copies and taking relevant action after the facts. Relevant action includes writing cease and desist letters, putting legal pressure on the Internet Service Provider, the hosting company, the domain manager, webmaster, etc., and optionally going as far as taking the case to Court.
In all those cases it will be up to you, the plaintiff, to prove that you were first publishing the content under scrutiny.
For that purpose, we have set up a simple system that anyone can put into practice, which, combined with our skills as a lawyer, is guaranteed to effectively make those who have breached your intellectual property rights back down and remove the copy from their web site. We enable you to prove that your content is the original and we put the pressure on those who say otherwise.
Thinck is run by an experienced ex-lawyer, a dr. of law who is specialised in European (EU) IT law and intellectual property law.