Resolved Question: What is the differences between reusing code and theft of intellectual property?

Theft of intellectual property doesn't always apply. If you work at a company, another employee may have created code that you could reuse in your own project, which you typically can because the company owns the code. Not to mention the case where you create code and you want to reuse it in another project. That's also code reuse.

I (and many other people with me) have published code on the Internet for other people to (re-)use. Most of the time, the license under which it was published makes it clear this was the intent of the programmer; sometimes, admittedly, you just hope the other programmer doesn't mind. (Personally, I leave out a copyright notice but because I use comments like 'When you use this code in your own project, make sure that...")

Just look for copyright notices and/or the license under which the code was published.

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