Someone copying my website structure

Copyright covers the copy on the site, the text, images, etc. Although we are not lawyers.

Understand Andrew just looking for a second opinion as I am also not a lawyer :-), what did you think?

I don’t think you’ll be able to patent this, how will you prove that you came up with this structure first?

I think it’s rude but IANAL either. ??

Hi, Looking for some advice as a competitor has launched a new website using the exact same structure as my site and I wanted to know if this is covered under copyright?

These are support forums for WordPress software. Honestly, these forums are not for soliciting that sort of advice. If they are your competition and are doing as you say they are (I’ve not looked) then you need to decide what to do about it.

That’s very serious and not something to be discussed here.

Here’s what I was going to do which shows when the content was created:

Gather Information and Proof
Find a contact email address for the offending Web site. If you can’t find an email address on the site, do a WHOIS search for the registrant, this will be the owner of the Web site and should also list their contact information. Also make a note of who is hosting the Web site.
Use the Way Back Machine to find past views of your site — this helps prove that your site, with the original content, has been online longer.
Provide a link to the Google Cache showing that the Google Spiders discovered your content earlier than the offending Web site.
Take screenshots of the copied material on the offending Web site. In the case of a whole site being, copied save the source code as well so that it can be compared with yours.
Gather as much date evidence as possible — this might include screenshots or copies of:
The dates comments were made on your blog in response to the original post
Your MySQL database records
The original (preferably unedited) images or graphics with the file date
Past backups of your Web site with dates modified

I was just looking to see if anyone on the forum had experience of this and if this is covered under copyright as it is word for word and identical structure?

Thanks again

Lee