Magic tricks can be patented. https://www.google.com/patents/US6623366 https://www.google.com/patents/US6623366 And of course they can be trade secreted. Can

Magic tricks can be patented. https://www.google.com/patents/US6623366 https://www.google.com/patents/US6623366 And of course they can be trade secreted. Can they be copyrighted? That I dunno. A performance can be copyrighted. But the ideas? Probably not.