Okay so.
I know many of you have been as annoyed as I have been at the amount for exposure going on on the Internet. Tricks that are the result of hard work by magicians are revealed on YouTube as soon as they come out, resulting in not only a loss of revenue for the creator, but also a bunch of frankly terrible performances of YouTube-learned tricks.
However, I understand. You are new in magic and you are on limited funds and you have an insatiable desire for learning.
At the same time we have the young magicians who come up with a trick and want to SELL IT RIGHT NOW!!!!! without putting in the time or having the experience to have the trick be worthy of release.
Well.
I propose that the simplest solution for this is a wiki.
Anyway, the purpose of this wiki would be to provide high quality free tutorials by bringing together the magicians who just keep creating tricks and the magicians who just need more tricks. An unfinished or unpolished trick could be placed on the wiki and suggestions and edits by other magicians made, so that the trick is turned into a polished masterpiece by community effort. At the same time, copyright violations created by revealing moves which you do not own would be removed by the people with consciences, meaning that all work would be original and thus propel the art into new areas of thought. All work posted would be under a creative commons licence, meaning it is legal to give away free, but not legal for someone else to get rich off of your idea.
So if you had an unfinished trick that you would like some help perfecting, or you were knowledgeable and wanted to help perfect tricks, or you just wanted some free tutorials, you could get them without infringing on copyrights.
What do others think of the idea?
I know many of you have been as annoyed as I have been at the amount for exposure going on on the Internet. Tricks that are the result of hard work by magicians are revealed on YouTube as soon as they come out, resulting in not only a loss of revenue for the creator, but also a bunch of frankly terrible performances of YouTube-learned tricks.
However, I understand. You are new in magic and you are on limited funds and you have an insatiable desire for learning.
At the same time we have the young magicians who come up with a trick and want to SELL IT RIGHT NOW!!!!! without putting in the time or having the experience to have the trick be worthy of release.
Well.
I propose that the simplest solution for this is a wiki.
Anyway, the purpose of this wiki would be to provide high quality free tutorials by bringing together the magicians who just keep creating tricks and the magicians who just need more tricks. An unfinished or unpolished trick could be placed on the wiki and suggestions and edits by other magicians made, so that the trick is turned into a polished masterpiece by community effort. At the same time, copyright violations created by revealing moves which you do not own would be removed by the people with consciences, meaning that all work would be original and thus propel the art into new areas of thought. All work posted would be under a creative commons licence, meaning it is legal to give away free, but not legal for someone else to get rich off of your idea.
So if you had an unfinished trick that you would like some help perfecting, or you were knowledgeable and wanted to help perfect tricks, or you just wanted some free tutorials, you could get them without infringing on copyrights.
What do others think of the idea?