The Tricky Business of Innovation: Can You Patent a Magic Trick?
David Copperfield spends years developing illusions, perfecting patter, and mastering misdirection. And then lots of large-scale illusionists steal his style, his jokes, his presentations. I know countless magicians whose tricks have been copied, wholesale, with no new innovations. How can they all get away with it? Because they can.
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