I recall Lisa explaining in one of her videos, about Copyrights, but it was more about stealing content-copying someone else's text or images.

A couple of areas I would add caution to...Templates and Images (I will add a seperate post about images and text)

Years ago I designed a website using Front Page. (Perhaps Dreamweaver and some of the other web editors, may have the same process). At any rate, Front Page allows one to download a copy of any website and redesign the template it as yours if you wish.

I found a video editing layout on someones site that I liked and so copied it to Front Page. I deleted all the sites information, (In order not to copy their content or images), then took liberty with the layout and changed it here and there to meet my requirements.

I then added my own content, images and links and posted it to my webhost. A few weeks later, I received an email from the website that I had copied the template from, informing me that I had violated her copyright, and ordering me to take down my site.

Evidently, this person had used a web design firm to design her site. As part of her agreement, they tracked on a dialy basis all clicks to her site. As she informed me later, my IP address turned many times on her site, without so much as a request for her product. What that signified to her designers, was that someone was probably violating her copyright and stealing her content.

In the end, she turned out to be very pleasant and even offered to help me out.

What I didn't realize at time, was that the template was copyrighted. Even with all the major changes that I had made to it, the basic template itself was copyrighted and could not be used or redesigned.

Nowadays, there are plenty of free template sites around. I haven't checked out Site Build IT yet, buy many give you dozens of templates you can use or change without limit. My only caution would to be extremly vigilant, downloading and changing someone elses web template as your own.