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Robaire New user CANADA 65 Posts |
I am new to this art we call "magic". But fascinated by its possibilities. In my real life I am a Canadian lawyer (attorney) and trademark agent. NurseRob you make a very good point. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us that "There is nothing new under the sun" (and that was then!).
I want to dispel one myth: there is no private or copyright ownership of ideas. Only in the form in which those ideas are expressed. Ideas belong to the common pool of human knowledge. Magic becomes more "real" when it is personalized to the performer. While I am always looking for ideas, I can never adopt any line or effect exactly (or even closely) to that of any other performer (whether the originator or not). I must refine it and personalize it in its details, make it an extension of who I am, make it my own. Then it becomes "mine". And when the expression of that idea has been entirely re-worked to reflect who I am, it has the legitimacy that comes with authenticity. Robaire
State of Mind - Magic for the Intelligent Mind: Where the laws of space and time, cause and effect, are momentarily suspended.
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The Great Zoobini Elite user Boulder, Colorado 443 Posts |
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Thom Bliss Loyal user Southern California 271 Posts |
If I were to publish a selection of quotations or excerpts from a lot of books, magazines, and so on, all of them in the public domain, I could (would) copyright the book. Nobody else could legally publish the same selection of quotations or excerpts arranged in the same way. And nobody could legally publish any book that was almost exactly like mine, with but a few minor changes. But of course anybody else would be free to make their own selection from sources in the public domain and some of their quotations or excerpts might be the same as mine.
You are free to use any bits of stock material you please (so long as it really is in the public domain). But you can’t copy an entire act, or even an entire routine, even if every trick and every line is in the public domain. And copying a routine or an act with just a few minor changes doesn’t pass muster, either. |
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1336 Posts |
Arkadia
Thanks for the orginal post... As much as I love Stephen Wright, I couldn't use the lines, because I can't do deadpan as he does. But, just like most other things, seeing what others do well inspires me and helps me develop my own original material.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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aitchy Loyal user 222 Posts |
Mine is if just one person claps "don't clap on your own mate - someone will throw you a fish"
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phaddad2 Regular user 171 Posts |
So when does something become public domain. When Lewis Black wrote a book that had funny takes on every day occurrences I thought "that's what I think of them too" I had thought it, he wrote it, I agreed with it can I now say it in a show? A line is different than using someones act. I think for all of us it can be a struggle to not use that one great line that you heard that would fit your routine perfectly. I try not to but sometime I fail. I am sorry if Ive ever offended someone by using their line, it is not intentional but I know it has happened.
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