copyright
Copyright on mobile, clone an entire website
<p>One person I know is currently building an iOS application, in the main page there are some icons where inside one of them he clones my whole website.</p>

<p>In the World Wide Web it's always a copyright infringement but on mobile, applications like Pinterest or Facebook leave you navigate through external websites without leave the application itself, so I'm not sure.</p>

<p>Clone a website inside an app, is it copyright infringement or not?</p>

<h2>nothing makes mobile special</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/business-operations/is-it-ok-to-copy-material-from-a-website.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">If the website is actually copied, copyright infringement is triggered.</a></p>
<p>If however, the application loads your website from your website to display it, aka embedding it, then he does not copy your website. Copyright infringement is out, <a href="https://policyreview.info/articles/news/eu-ruling-embedding-does-not-equal-copyright-infringement/337" rel="nofollow noreferrer">especially in the EU</a>.</p>
<p>However, if the embedding is made in a way that makes it appear that the content is the applications and only burdons the website with traffic yet no other benefit it could have, then other problems can arise - <em>stealing</em> traffic from the other site might constitute a breach of the CFAA. Also, the terms of use on the website might prevent such embedding, and a &quot;don't embed my site&quot; clause in the ToS would not be unconscionable, so the clause could be enforced in court.</p>
