[WikiEN-l] Exposure of magic on Wikipedia

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

And while they're probably not exact copies of the method used in the book
or manual provided with the effect. The summary written in the article is in
such detail that it may constitute a copyright violation of the manual the
same way excessively long plot summaries are. (see for example the template
atop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28season_3%29 )

Mgm


On 1/15/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But it's still making material freely available that should be paid for to
> start with.
>
> On 1/15/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In a previous discussion it was determined that most magic tricks
> > aren't
> > > patented (for fear of revealing the method) or copyrighted (only the
> > way
> > > it's written down in a book or recorded on a DVD or video is
> > copyrighted).
> > > However, isn't exposure of commercially available effects considered
> > > [[piracy]] then?
> >
> > I don't see how. It's possible that stealing someone else's trick for
> > your magic show might be piracy, but describing a trick in an
> > encyclopedia article shouldn't be. We're not reproducing the trick,
> > just describing it.
> >
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