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I look forward to Craig's video unveiling the Magic Mafia...
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Indeed… was glad to see some positivity on this thread though Smile
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I look forward to Craig's video unveiling the Magic Mafia...


I agree. The more details we have on what's been really going on behind the scenes the better.
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I think we can all agree that Weber's actions paint him in the dimmest ethical light.

Please do share the video where Craig admits to knowingly stealing New Wave Prediction (and then pretending he didn't).

I'd be happy to publicly apologise for bringing it back up.


Everyone, please stop feeding this troll. They appear to be very hungry!
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"Trolls are people who leave intentionally provocative or offensive messages on the internet in order to get attention, cause trouble or upset someone."

NYC, I think your post might just cover all three. Well done!
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That's a lawyer buying rights because they knew they could more effectively threaten someone that way. Its not like King asked for it to be removed and Craig had refused, so Weber nobly took up the cause. No, Weber saw an opportunity to buy rights in order to do maximum damage.

Its patent troll behaviour - legal, but gross.

There is just no excuse for this man’s behaviour. To the people who are saying “we all make mistakes” etc etc, yes, but 20 years of deception isn’t a mistake. And some of these things are just straight up scummy. Yet, still not a word of acknowledgment or any apology from him.


This raises a general question, how does someone buy "rights" to a trick if its method is not covered by patent or copy right protection?
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Love the Freudian slip Craig "But RED never went away and I have coke to realise that it never will."
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This raises a general question, how does someone buy "rights" to a trick if its method is not covered by patent or copy right protection?

In documenting magic works, we usually apply two labels. One is used to label the actual work, the part you can perform, the part that forms the fiction or the drama. The other label is to describe our guesses, or our wishful thinking, regarding how an onlooker might interpret the performed work.
Unfortunately, the former label is also a word that has a different meaning in IP legislation, as it has very specific and narrow definition within patent law where it means something akin to 'scientific process' or 'industrial manufacturing process'.
It is just like the word "equivoque" that have a specific definition within magic, despite having a completely incompatible definition in the rest of the world.
Regardless of how you label it, the part that can be performed is covered by copyright.
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This raises a general question, how does someone buy "rights" to a trick if its method is not covered by patent or copy right protection?

In documenting magic works, we usually apply two labels. One is used to label the actual work, the part you can perform, the part that forms the fiction or the drama. The other label is to describe our guesses, or our wishful thinking, regarding how an onlooker might interpret the performed work.
Unfortunately, the former label is also a word that has a different meaning in IP legislation, as it has very specific and narrow definition within patent law where it means something akin to 'scientific process' or 'industrial manufacturing process'.
It is just like the word "equivoque" that have a specific definition within magic, despite having a completely incompatible definition in the rest of the world.
Regardless of how you label it, the part that can be performed is covered by copyright.

Thanks Tom. Appreciate that insightful bit of information.
Overall, this thread has been one of the most interesting and educational discussions I've seen in a long time.
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On Feb 13, 2023, Morganjj wrote:
That's a lawyer buying rights because they knew they could more effectively threaten someone that way. Its not like King asked for it to be removed and Craig had refused, so Weber nobly took up the cause. No, Weber saw an opportunity to buy rights in order to do maximum damage.

Its patent troll behaviour - legal, but gross.

There is just no excuse for this man’s behaviour. To the people who are saying “we all make mistakes” etc etc, yes, but 20 years of deception isn’t a mistake. And some of these things are just straight up scummy. Yet, still not a word of acknowledgment or any apology from him.


This raises a general question, how does someone buy "rights" to a trick if its method is not covered by patent or copy right protection?


The reason why Elon Musk does not “Patent” his product is it becomes part of the public domain and is easily copied by anyoen with an internet access to the USPTO (for US patents). Without Patent, you have to buy the product and reverse engineer in order to steal it; making it less worthy to create copies. In reality, when a patent is not issued, the laws, in the US at least, give the first whom creates it the right of ownership. However, this also has to be available in the public domain where the second creator must have knowledge of the first product. People can come up with the same method and idea for anything, but if the first doesn’t bring it to market for the general public, they lose the ability to challenge and stop the first person to the market with it. In this case, “AGE receipts” was never brought to the market in the past. IT was only given to a select few and they were prohibited from sharing it. Making this not in the market. Therefore, Real Secrets don’t have a claim to this at this point. IMO….

Back to the topic of this post, can’t want for mine to arrive so I can enjoy watching and learning this method.
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My brothers and sisters, respect for your knowledge of the law, ethics and magic history. I think that every single opinion that anyone could have on this topic has already been stated. Let the creators of both the effects work it out. Go practice, perform or create magic. I’m begging you, stop posting on this thread.
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Magicians have a tendency to beat a dead horse to death. As said earlier, time to move on.
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Here's the issue: I want to talk about the effect. Do I start a new thread? Will people jump on it to start arguing again? How can this die a peaceful death?
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Post in the Tricks and Effects section and see. Smile
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Can we get Everythingmagicpro to review both tricks?
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Hey guys,

I have both effects.

I can review them if you like.

Both of them serve a purpose and are different.

I actually posted a partial review of Peter Turner's section, Lloyd Barnes section, and Peter Nardi's section, but nobody wanted to hear it, since everyone was focused on other matters

Let me know

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On Feb 14, 2023, Steven Conner wrote:
Magicians have a tendency to beat a dead horse to death.


Wow, I'd pay real money to see this trick!

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Can I get a refund for the past 20 years? My god.
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I respect Craig even more from his last post. If you read this, chin up. Your humbleness and integrity is clear.

You just owned everything. Most of us don’t.

People need to read the post if they haven’t. No one can take anything from you anymore. And that freedom is true power.

Back to the trick…
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X2. The truth does set you free.
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