On 15/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Excessively long plot summaries of films and books can constitute a copyright violation because while they're not an exact copy, they damage intellectual rights of the copyrighted material.
per case law.
Can't the same apply to summarizing a magic trick manual to the point while the text is not a copy it still violates the copyright of the text?
Case law please? It sounds a bit of a stretch and in the class of things where it would be ridiculous for us to attempt to assuage the sense of entitlement you allege for magicians.
- d.