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Having acquired several books and DVD’s on Magic I notice that a number of tricks appear in many publications. The questions I have is; for an author putting together a compendium of tricks what conjure or illusion is copyright? What can be written up and published and used again and what can't?

Garry,

If you take a look around the forum you will find some discussions regarding this.

An Apology, bloody as it was has much regarding ownership, copyright and intellectual rights. This is in 'Forum Requests'.

Rip-offs (AKA Knock Offs) in miscellaneous has a great article which might be useful (thank you again Kati!).

There are other which touch on this topic too if you have a go with the search function, you'll probably be able to hasten your searching for answers.

I hope this helps, feel free to pm me if there's anything else I can help with,

Vic

Just a point that is perhaps worth noting, although it probably won't effect most here.

The point is that I've noticed that although tricks taught on DVD's permit you perform these tricks as shown, many exclude performance rights extending to television.

yes, fi you want to use these videos or books eleswhere youll need a permission from author.

However locating and contacing the original author can be quite difficult. Some people will say that this is Franks trick while other will claim that Frank ripped it off from Bob etc etc...

Just to help you find these threads here are the links:

• Rip-offs (AKA knock-offs)
• An Apology

Kati