Talk:Intellectual rights to magic methods: Difference between revisions

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([[User:Bid297|Bid297]] ([[User talk:Bid297|talk]]) 20:52, 6 July 2016 (UTC))

:I've tidied up this part of the article to better reflect the facts and context. It may be that Hessel Bos is the first person to register a trick with the US Copyright Office but there's no cited source to confirm no one else did it earlier. Also, (as now stated in the article) registration is not the key to copyright protection - copyright automatically comes into being when a work is created. Due recognition needs to be given to the Teller case because that involved copyright being upheld in court, whereas Bos's action was just a DMCA takedown request. The paragraph read a bit like a PR piece for Hessel Bos. I figured it would be harsh to delete it but I've edited it to hopefully be more in line with Wikipedia style. I checked the registration numbers on the US Patent Office site and it shows both registrations categorised simply as "text". I'm dubious about the passage that says "Later he did this as an actual magic trick" - I don't see anything that says the USCO recognises "magic trick" as a specific category of work that can have protection.

:[[User:Circusandmagicfan|Circusandmagicfan]] ([[User talk:Circusandmagicfan|talk]]) 22:25, 18 February 2017 (UTC)circusandmagicfan

== Industry standard and praxis ==