Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
Are you sure? So if I go inside AJC, purchase a paper, and then leave, I should be charged with theft?
No that's legal. But if someone from the AJC found you selling or distributing copyrighted material to other people without them paying for it, then yes, that's is considered illegal.

Ever watch an NFL or NBA game, there's always that 10 second "ant copying, taping, reproduction of this broadcast without express written consent constitutes blahblahblah".

Purchasing the paper is fine, copying it is illegal, copying it to distribute is illegal.

In your scenario the second he copies the paper he is Technically violating copyright law