What are my obligations to avoid HTML copyright infringement?

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I would like to copy and paste the HTML of a listing on a real estate website to modify and use as a template for my own "for sale by owner" listing. If I remove all photos, text etc that pertain to that particular listing and website can I legally do this? Anyone know any links to documentation regarding these kinds of copyright issues?
 
Technically, you cannot use any portion of copied HTML code for commercial purposes.

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

That said, as a practical matter, there are a finite number of ways to mark up a Web page to achieve a specific end result and it may well be that the code you copy is the only way to achieve that end.

So long as the "look" of your site is different, that should be OK. In other words, if the HTML framework is styled by different CSS, in such a way that the markup doesn't look the same as the source, you could argue that the structure is a fact that cannot be copyrighted.
 
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