Clearing Up False Accusations
Posted: May 29th, 2002, 11:04 pm
Hey everybody,
First, my apologies in advance for those who read this post on more than one forum; I hope you can understand my multiple postins, made in a desire to make sure my reputation isn't wrongfully damaged.
Recently, I've been attacked on various forums/lists/message boards with an accusation regarding my commercial effect "It's a Match"; I responded to these uninformed allegations in a couple of these places, but I want to post it here where more folks will see it, so that the real facts will be available to as many people as possible.
As those of you familiar with the effect know, the method is the same as one used in a certain Larry Becker effect. Despite the fact that Larry's wonderful effect is clearly credited in the instructions, and that Larry gave me his explicit permission to release my effect, some folks still insist on accusing me of stealing his effect.
Given that, I want to make it abundantly clear: Larry quite generously gave me his permission to market my effect. His effect is clearly credited in the instructions to my effect. No theft went on, and there is no bad blood, except in the minds of a few folks who find it necessary to falsely accuse me without knowing a single fact of the matter.
As many of you may know, I am quite adamant about defending creators' rights and have been known to quite loudly chastise magicians who don't bother to research and especially who knowingly teach another creators' work without permission. I find it quite upsetting, then, that some people have found it necessary to (again, without knowing the facts) accuse me of the same behavior that I so loudly speak out against. It's even more frustrating in that many of these folks have done so as an attack against my comments towards folks who have in fact marketed others' ideas without appropriate permission/credit/research.
I would never do such a thing, and take great umbrage to being accused of such.
When I have spoken out about somebody wrongfully releasing another person's effect, I've made sure to fully research and have the information to back up what I'm saying. Folks who have accused me of this obviously haven't done so, or they would have found out that it couldn't be further from the truth.
Thanks for the time and space,
Andy Leviss
First, my apologies in advance for those who read this post on more than one forum; I hope you can understand my multiple postins, made in a desire to make sure my reputation isn't wrongfully damaged.
Recently, I've been attacked on various forums/lists/message boards with an accusation regarding my commercial effect "It's a Match"; I responded to these uninformed allegations in a couple of these places, but I want to post it here where more folks will see it, so that the real facts will be available to as many people as possible.
As those of you familiar with the effect know, the method is the same as one used in a certain Larry Becker effect. Despite the fact that Larry's wonderful effect is clearly credited in the instructions, and that Larry gave me his explicit permission to release my effect, some folks still insist on accusing me of stealing his effect.
Given that, I want to make it abundantly clear: Larry quite generously gave me his permission to market my effect. His effect is clearly credited in the instructions to my effect. No theft went on, and there is no bad blood, except in the minds of a few folks who find it necessary to falsely accuse me without knowing a single fact of the matter.
As many of you may know, I am quite adamant about defending creators' rights and have been known to quite loudly chastise magicians who don't bother to research and especially who knowingly teach another creators' work without permission. I find it quite upsetting, then, that some people have found it necessary to (again, without knowing the facts) accuse me of the same behavior that I so loudly speak out against. It's even more frustrating in that many of these folks have done so as an attack against my comments towards folks who have in fact marketed others' ideas without appropriate permission/credit/research.
I would never do such a thing, and take great umbrage to being accused of such.
When I have spoken out about somebody wrongfully releasing another person's effect, I've made sure to fully research and have the information to back up what I'm saying. Folks who have accused me of this obviously haven't done so, or they would have found out that it couldn't be further from the truth.
Thanks for the time and space,
Andy Leviss