Need opinion on LegalZoom documents

[KmH]

The problem with Googling documents is that it's technically stealing like using someone else's photo without permission.

If you're modifying the document, wouldn't it be more like using it for inspiration? Or, a 'derivative work' at the worst.

I don't know how similar copyright law is when it comes to derivative works between documents and photos though... It may or may not be an issue.

From page 1 of http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

Section 106
of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive
right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
• reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords
• prepare derivative works based upon the work

Many things cannot be copyrighted, also from Circular 1 - linked to above:

Several categories of material are generally not eligible for
federal copyright protection. These include among others:
• works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of
expression (for example, choreographic works that have
not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches
or performances that have not been written or recorded)
• titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols
or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation,
lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents
• ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts,
principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a
description, explanation, or illustration
• works consisting entirely of information that is common
property and containing no original authorship (for
example: standard calendars, height and weight charts,
tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from
public documents or other common sources)