Patent ID: 8264707

Claim:
A method, in a data processing system, for reproducing a physical hard copy article as a copy of the article, comprising: electronically scanning a surface of the physical hard copy article using a scanning mechanism to generate scanned data; extracting a reproduction control identifier from the scanned data; and controlling output of a reproduction of the physical hard copy article based on the reproduction control identifier that was extracted from the scanned data, wherein the physical hard copy article has a plurality of reproduction control identifiers present in multiple locations on the surface of the physical hard copy article such that content of portions of the physical hard copy article provided on the surface cannot be electronically scanned by the scanning mechanism without detecting a reproduction control identifier in the plurality of reproduction control identifiers, wherein the surface of the physical hard copy article has a first portion of content and a second portion of content, the first portion of content having different content provided thereon than the second portion of content, and wherein the plurality of reproduction control identifiers comprises one or more first reproduction control identifiers associated with the first portion of content and one or more second reproduction control identifiers, the one or more first reproduction control identifiers encoding different identifier information than the one or more second reproduction control identifiers.