Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Learn about your rights and responsibilites when you use MagicLibrary.org.

Description

MagicLibrary.org is a reference database of books, videos, and other educational resources for the art of magic. It is intended to provide information about these materials to students, researchers, and collectors of magic.

The project is owned and operated by Ryan Pilling, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and subject to the laws and regulations of the territory.

Limitation of Liability

This website operates as a non-critical informational resource. We reserve the right to shut down this website for any reason with no notice.

The information on this website may contain errors or false claims.

User-submitted content (text and/or media) may express opinions or non-factual information which are not reflective of the site owner(s).

The owner(s) of this website are not accountable for any personal or business damage or injury caused by the information published on this website.

Copyright Policy

While the primary purpose of this website is to reference works (many of which are protected by copyright) we do not intend to violate copyright law. Any user-submitted content found to be unlawfully copied from a protected source will be removed. Copyright holders may contact us for removal of any content which violates their rights.

Our reference library does include user-submitted scans or photographs of covers, as well as listings and descriptions of contents. We believe this is fair use for the purposes of research and cataloguing the history of magic.

User Conduct (Don't be a jerk)

We rely on community contributions for our reference library, which demands a certain level of trust to allow users to contribute and edit information. Any of following behaviour will not be tolerated;

  • Posting hateful, inconsiderate, or deliberately offensive content.
  • Posting deliberately non-factual information.
  • Knowingly submitting copyright-protected content.
  • Redaction or obfuscation of relevant information.
  • Harassment or unwanted contact towards other users.

Users found in violation of these rules may result in an immediate termination of your user account, including a ban from creating new accounts, at the sole discretion of site moderators and administrators.

User Contributed Data

All user-contributed data is assumed to be free of copyright protections, or falling under fair use for purposes of research and cataloguing. Original content submitted by users is done so with no presumption of personal claim to copyright.

The content on this website is published under a Creative Commons - Attribution license, allowing the wider magic community to make use of the information with appropriate credit given to the source.

Termination of Service

This website is provided without warranty or guarantees of any kind. The entire website may go offline temporarily, or be permanently deleted at any time.

Inidividual accounts may be deleted for User Conduct violations, or after prolonged periods of inactivity. Any private data will not be recoverable.

Library records my be removed or unpublished at any time, making the data inaccesible to public.

Published July 11th 2025 by Librarian

Updated July 11th 2025

MagicLibrary.org

A project by Ryan Pilling, content licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution.

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