![]() And in the end - that helps protect their work and discourage learning from improper sources. That helps the creator by making it more difficult to steal their work than it is to buy it. Those "fake exposure" videos started off as a lighthearted activity, but they make a REAL, positive difference in making it more difficult for people to find "real" exposure videos - having to watch multiple fake ones before ever landing on an actual method. Whenever you see any of our videos posted without permission - please, absolutely, let us know! In terms of videos that simply expose tricks, one of the few ways we can mitigate that is by making it EASIER to buy the real thing than it is to steal it (by watching an unauthorized video on YouTube). With copyright infringement, we take violations very seriously - and we pursue copyright infringement activity to the maximum extent possible by law. These creators spend hours each day working on new ideas, and their only compensation to support themselves and their family is sales of their work - so, exposure truly, seriously, actually hurts.Īt theory11, we push hard (and invest a lot of time and resources) to be a leader on both fronts. Creators base on their lives, livelihoods, and families on sale of their original ideas - their creations - so every exposure video that prevents someone from buying it and learning it FROM them, hurts them - and seriously so. One thing is very clear: it's obviously unethical. There are some legal means to protect ideas of the sort - most recently evidenced by Teller (of Penn & Teller) successfully protecting his "Shadows" routine. With few exceptions, that stuff is more difficult to protect, as it's not a simple "copyright infringement" issue (that is, the person isn't directly posting a copyrighted final video they didn't create, on YouTube). ![]() ![]() That said, it's somewhat difficult to protect an IDEA - such as a method for a magic trick. Those things are easily copyrighted - which is why you can't upload an episode of Seinfeld to YouTube without feeling the wrath of its rightful owners. ![]() then why not contact me to see how I can contribute to your event? I might even teach you a trick.Click to expand.It's very easy to protect a finished, creative work - like a song, a video, a design, or a script. In the meantime, if you’d like to treat your guests at a wedding, party, dinner, fund raiser etc. Well, that’s something I will cover in a future post. So, if magicians never reveal their tricks, how do they learn them in the first place, I hear you ask. The secret was exposed (though, in all fairness, I think the modern audience has begun to guess) and that was the end of that It was an incredible trick…until it was sold as a toy one Christmas. Years ago it was common to see magicians perform with a floating cane. Don’t forget, magicians’ livelihood depends on the secrecy.Įxposure of a trick can ruin it. If somebody creates a magic trick, I don’t really have the right to reveal it to anybody else, even if I have paid for it. On a more selfish note, the magician has taken time and, usually money, to buy the secret and then practise and rehearse. ‘Oh, so that’s how you did it.’ said in a falling tone of disappointment. Now, if the magic secret is revealed the amazement is replaced by a swift sense of let-down. A deck of cards just turned to glass while the spectator was holding it. Look at the expressions of the women at the house party I performed at recently. After the initial surprise, the reaction is usually one of laughter or puzzlement. We have just witnessed something that our mind tells us CANNOT happen.but, dammit, we just saw it happen. What magic offers is a moment of Wonder/Surprise. After all, if somebody really had magic powers they might be able to use them for something more worthy than finding playing cards or making rabbits appear from a hat…though the latter might solve food shortage problems. Every adult knows that magic doesn’t really exist. ![]() Here are some simple reasons why magicians never reveal their tricks.įirst and foremost, it destroys the mystery. ![]()
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