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Pavloter Special user 529 Posts |
Is this stack in public domain?
Pavlo
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Dante_Ravenkin New user Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 90 Posts |
I think so.... Isn't that stack from like, the 20's or 30's?
'For Those Who Believe, No Explanation is Necessary. For Those Who Do Not, None Will Suffice.' - Joseph Dunninger
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Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts |
I think it's a lot older that that.
I heard Si Stebbins kept the secret himself for close to 50 years. ( I believe Stebbins later said he had learned it from someone else) Anyone else ever heard that?
"Get a life dude." -some guy in a magic forum
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Nikodemus Siivola New user Helsinki, Finland 39 Posts |
Yes.
Not only is copyrighting a stack essentially impossible (you can copyright a specific description -- and probably most of the extant descriptions are under copyright), but Tamariz's bibliography in Mnemonica places the first known description of the stack in question in 1593 (Horatio Galasso: Giochi di carte bellissimi di regola, e di memoria)... if 415 years is not enough for material to enter public domain, I don't know what is! Apropos, Si Stebbin's Card Tricks, and The Way They Are Performed can be found on archive.org, and is to my best knowledge in public domain: though Si Stebbins died less then 70 years ago (1950?), the book was published around 1898 and does not bear a copyright notice -- which was required in the US upto 1989. |
Eric Richardson Regular user 110 Posts |
You can also find the stack on stackview.com among many other places.
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