[WikiEN-l] Exposure of magic on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 15/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at 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.