Terms of sale of templates for sites for popular CMS

Question

Copyright

I want to sell templates for sites under the popular CMS. How profitable
or more profitable are custom-made sites?
Please share your experience.
Interested in:
1. Where can I get photos (illustrations) - buy or from free photobanks?
Many templates use popular techniques, clothes, brand names - is this not a copyright infringement?
2. If you use a free template (module) and "finish it beyond recognition" a little, then how likely are the author's claims?
3. If you bought an exclusive license on one site, do you need to remove this template from other sites? Who will track it and how?

Answer 1

If you, for example, read the rules on themeforest, then these questions will disappear from you. But if you ask them, most likely they will not let you in.

Answer 2

It's too vague - general phrases.
themeforest Membership Terms and Conditions p.15
Excerpt:
-you have intellectual property rights in this product;
- that the product does not infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties;
- that the Product is not fraudulent, stolen or illegal;
According to these rules, in general, all templates fall under suspicion, because:
If the CMS is free, then it has basic modules without which the site will not work (Cart, registration, paginator, etc.) In the default theme, these modules have already been implemented by someone and changing them for the purpose of resale is already a violation of copyright . It is highly doubtful that the developer of templates hires a photographer or buys photo images under an extended license. Moreover, pictures with iPhones and iPods are presented in almost every template that is the topic of technology (for an example, see templatemonsters) And probably these images are "copied". Brand names are the same: Apple, Rolex, Nokia, etc. constantly appear in the reference books Manufacturers. And take, for example, modules - jekveri carousels on the main page or logos of social networks. Well, who will "from scratch" invent the wheel? Or templates implemented on popular frameworks,
It turns out that not all templates are so "white-and-fluffy"?
Correct me if I am wrong. I would like to get an adequate answer, and not poke into the rules and regulations.