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Originally Posted by martyh
If you paint a picture and someone decides they like it and takes it off your wall and takes possesion of that painting that is obviously theft ,if someone comes around your house sees the picture decides they like it and takes a HD photo of said picture prints it and decides to sell it to make money that is copyright infringement (assuming you had it copyrighted in the first place) not theft because they haven't stolen the picture merely copied it
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Actually, if they copy it for personal use then it's civil infringment. If they copy it and then make commercial gains from the copy, that's a criminal matter.