Is it illegal to use a copyrighted website in one country and put it into a international market?

Answer 1

If you mean copy a site that is copyrighted in one country and then use it as if it were your own but hosted in Another Country, then - YES - that is illegal. You have just violated the copyright within the country.

As an example: if you copy a book published in the UK and copyrighted there and then publish it and sell it in India, the UK can prosecute you - but only in the UK. Anyone selling the pirated book in the UK could be prosecuted. It might be difficult, however to get any prosecution in India unless they respect the UK copyright.

The situation with copyrighted material and content of a website. People can - and do - steal content and host it on servers in other countries. The most that can usually be done is to request that the host shut it down under threat of having their entire company added to blacklists of hosting services that are automatically blocked by responsible ISPs in most countries.

If you mean - is it illegal to copyright a website in one country but host it elsewhere, then - generally NO - the copyright applies to the website, not the host. To use the book analogy: if you copyright a book but use a publisher in another country to actually print it, the copyright is still valid. Nothing about copyright law says where you have to print it; it just says that no one else can copy the book and sell it without your permission within the area where it is under copyright.