Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks

Re:Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated t... by regularfry on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:02PM (#13100603)

> A video or whatever may be copyrighted, but it's not really possible to protect a "trick".

Interestingly, this isn't quite true. People are trying to exert copyright over the specific motions under choreography protection.

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Re:Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated t... by clort on Sunday December 04, 2016 @04:10PM (#13101788)

I wonder how this would go down in a court of law, in that the specific motions they are claiming copyright on were /obfuscated/ or downright /concealed/ from view. I wonder if you can legally be considered to have copied something you have not seen..

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Re:Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated t... by regularfry on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:30PM (#13102347)

I suppose what you'd end up copyrighting is the final effect, not how it's achieved. Which is, I guess, the point.

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Re:Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated t... by manarth on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:39PM (#13102611)

Without knowledge of the finer points of copyright law (IANAL), is this (the final effect) even copyrightable?

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