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> I am fine with the literary aspects of it being protected > provided that the practical aspects are not I guess you're thinking along the lines of a playw
by pydave 14y ago
> I am fine with the literary aspects of it being protected
> provided that the practical aspects are not
I guess you're thinking along the lines of a playwright who sells scripts of her play, but cannot prevent people from performing the play (since they already bought the script)?
- einhverfr 14y agoMore along the lines that if you don't disclose how you do the illusion you can't prevent other people from publishing write-ups or selling kits to do something similar. Then magic tricks can all be patented, and protected for the life of the patent. Interested amateurs can look up the patents, but magicians can rest assured that few in their audience will take that step. Seems like a perfect tradeoff to me.