An Artist's Copyright Notice

Looking through the collection of lecture notes I've accumulated over the past twenty-five years, I found
alot of useful effects, techniques and bits. In one of Flip’s sets of lecture notes there is a copyright notice
I like for various reasons.
You might, too. I make my entire living from inventing and performing magic.
My original routines are created as pieces of art, like poems and design objects. Some of them took a
long time to develop and/or finding refined details by trying them out in actual performances.
Please treat them accordingly.
If you copy these ideas without paying for them to the author, you steal his intellectual property, which
is dishonest. But if you have to, the least you can do is to compensate me by sending your written
commentaries, experiences or your originalities in this field.
That's reasonable, don’t you agree? | know you can be trusted!
In a time when DVDs are illegally duplicated, and books are made into PDF files and downloaded for free
on the Internet without the author's permission, Flip’s words are as valid as they were when he wrote
them; perhaps even more so. (Reprinted with his permission.)

Talk
The impact a magician has on an audience is not created just during the formal performance, as | long
believed. From over thirty years of experience, practicing magic as an amateur, semi-professional and
later as a full-time pro, I've discovered the time you spend with your audience before and after the
performance may be of near equal importance in creating the impression you leave with your
spectators. Be able to talk intelligently about magic with laypeople, including doctors, lawyers, CEOs and
anyone who excels in his or her job. Know the key facts of magic history, as well as its most important
performers, inventors and authors. Know the influence they exerted. Know about cross-cultural
developments, about the philosophical implications and psychological fundamentals. Know why magic
deceives and fascinates educated people.

Questions from the public, both naive and intelligent, are frequently the same, the world over.
Be ready to answer them politely, intelligently and memorably.