What is considered copyright when it comes to building a website?

[Adam Scerra]

I understand that many CSS style sheets are passed around and shared frequently across the web. My question is when does leveraging someone else's web page code become illegal?

Example here is:

Finding a website that I would like to emulate.

Copying their HTML files and CSS files.

Editing the HTML file to replace their content with my content

Leaving the CSS files exactly as they are since I like the style and format of the page.

Is this copyright and is it illegal?

If it is at what point does the problem arise, and how would you best recommend I go about this if I am a beginner?

Thank you all for your time!

[Mike Dewhirst]

If you listen to Tim Berners-Lee, the design of web browsers should
always enable revealing the source of the page for the prime purpose of
educating others to develop websites. It is designed in.

If you are concerned, drop them a line and congratulate them on a good
layout and thank them for helping you with your design.

IANAL

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[David Swarbrick]

Copyright varies a little from jurisdition to jurisdiction.

The essence of it is that copyright arises automatically when a person records a creative element. Nothing more is required. Copyright opeates then to give to the creator the right to control the making of copies of that creation. 

Necessarily on the web, an implied licence is given so that the computers of visitors to a site copy all sort of files in order to make the web page visible. That is an implied licence, but the licence need go no further than that.

To copy and then amend is in essence a breach of copyright. 

Much of this is dealt with in different ways by the assorted licensing systems.

 

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