# Magic Tricks and Intellectual Property

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 12, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-tricks-and-intellectual-property/254775 "2004-07-12T21:07:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-tricks-and-intellectual-property/254775/69 "2004-07-14T01:35:23Z")

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This is a legal discussion, so lets look at the actual statute!

> [@United States Code Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 102(b)](#):
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> (b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

Do legal statutes come any clearer then that?

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