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gimpy2 Special user 945 Posts 
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I just can't seem to find out what the rules are when you are trying to produce magic effects. Is there an agreed on list of do's and don't's?
Is there a time limit that someone holds exclusive rights on certain effects, or is it forever? How do you go about owning the rights to an effect? Do you sign up somewhere? How much different does a trick have to be from something else out there to be new? I understand that it would be wrong to say... make a tape measure that you would be able to predict a random measurement, but can you improve say...a duck bucket? Thanks for any help, Gimpy
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truthteller Inner circle 2586 Posts
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Gimpy,
FIrst, if the idea is associated with someone, just ask permission. Get permission and you are fine. Sometimes, in obtaining that permission, one works out a financial agreement. I bought the license to a trick some time ago. I knew the person who was making/selling it and we came to a figure we were both happy with. If you create something that IS new, then we would hope others would respect that and seek out your permission should they desire to copy it. As far as being known as the official "right holder" (baring copyright issues) there really is no database for that information. But if enough people know it to be your idea, I think you will find yourself defended should any issue arise. As to the difference argument - that is a tough one. Getting permission will always take care of that issue. But I think if you are in doubt, then perhaps it is too close. Is changing the method enough? In which case a new tape measure could be perfectly ethical. Or, do we grant rights to the creator of an "effect?" Different people have different opinions here. I would think, though, that duck buckets are free for tampering. Brad Henderson |
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Cleverpaws Regular user Northern California 127 Posts
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What if you wanted to recreate a magic effect from the late 1800s or early 1900s and the original creator has long since died (~1930) and the person that was making it with them died in ~1950?
How would you go about tracing the lineage of successors? Would it be ok to make this effect almost identical and sell it? |
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danaruns Special user The City of Angels 791 Posts
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You can't "own" methods.
"Dana Douglas is the greatest magician alive. Plus, I'm drunk." -- Foster Brooks
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longhaired1 Veteran user Salida 304 Posts
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Are you talking about rules to market effects or perform them, or both?
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Cleverpaws Regular user Northern California 127 Posts
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Im curious about marketing an actual item that is no longer being made. I’m going to guess Gimpy is asking the same as he’s a maker also.
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Deckstacker New user Cherry Valley, CA 68 Posts
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Before discovering a current online source for the well-known "Pop Up Tie Gimmick" (having lost mine from years ago) I considered making one in my garage workshop for my own personal use. I'm guessing that would have been okay. (?) But what if I'd also made several more and offered them up on eBay or elsewhere? Would anybody have really cared? --I realize that this is probably a trivial example of a perhaps out-of-patent item, if indeed it was ever patented. It's the principle I'm more interested in here. Any thoughts---anybody?
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JoshDude849 New user 38 Posts
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If people were creative like they were back in the day, we wouldn't have to worry about using someone else's tricks.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 19626 Posts
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Yeah because back in the day with guys like Houdini nobody ever accused anyone of things like this.
I am going to suggest reading a little more about things "back in the day".
Danny Doyle
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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On Feb 2, 2019, danaruns wrote: Ya can't "own" effects, either! Fitzkee "identified" only 19 effects in his "Trick Brain" in the mid "40s! An "effect" is "what the spectator perceives". (production, vanish, transposition, transformation, restoration, penetration, levitation, animation, etc.)
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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On May 14, 2019, Deckstacker wrote: Jack London,IIRC, "invented" that in the mid '40s. I had one. It was a visual gag, prop.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 4714 Posts
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I had one from one of the catalogues when I was a kid. I wore it to elementary school on assembly days.
I forget who suggested using it as a Glorpy with hanky held in front of your chest.
Gerald Deutsch's Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years available now.
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Cleverpaws Regular user Northern California 127 Posts
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Any chance we can get back to OP's original topic/questions?
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Julie Inner circle 3357 Posts
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It would occasionally "pop-up" in early movies and later t.v. shows, too.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 19626 Posts
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On Aug 26, 2019, Cleverpaws wrote: What is this your first day?
Danny Doyle
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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On Oct 9, 2008, gimpy2 wrote: An EFFECT IS WHAT THE SPECTATOR PERCEIVES. Therefore: There aint no such list. You cannot own "rights" to any EFFECT. Darn near impossible to answer!!! Duck Bucket? Use a wash tub, and a herd of ducks. Harry Jr. had a spectator look inside the bucket. He said, "You can see YOURSELF (!!!) the bucket is empty!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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On Feb 2, 2019, longhaired1 wrote: The EFFECT is what the spectator PERCEIVES! (ya CANNOT market OR PERFORM an EFFECT Ya cannot market or sell (or buy) a TRICK. Ya CAN PERFORM a trick. (A trick, somewhat like music, only exists while it is being PERFORMED.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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On Aug 24, 2019, Dannydoyle wrote: YUP! If you don't study history, you are "condemned" to repeat it!
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Cleverpaws Regular user Northern California 127 Posts
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So it seems that we are now discussing technicalities of word definitions rather than magic or answering the original question.
I've been on the Café long enough to know that this is where many threads go (in a different direction) but for those of us that would like to have some good advice about " not an effect, not a trick" , but an illusion: "Definition of illusion" according to the Webster dictionary 1a(1) : a misleading image presented to the vision : OPTICAL ILLUSION (2) : something that deceives or misleads intellectually. Perhaps someone on here could reply to the original question with some real advice. Or should we just start new threads each time a reply goes off track? |
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8340 Posts
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I'll respond tomorrow, to your above post. I'm too tired tonight. Maybe you haven't been around, long enough. When you don't know what an EFFECT IS, it's obvious that you're a Johnny Come Lately, The OP, and, perhaps YOU, should read TARBELL, so you know what you are talking about.
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