Magicians in China are particularly upset with Millennial magician Li Yunfei, who is now sharing some of their age-old secrets online. According to Li, trading secrets for clicks — and thus profit — has become an increasingly common practice among young Chinese magicians. Great for Li, but terrible for older magicians like Tian Xueming, who is an official fourth-generation inheritor of Mu-style magic (one of the two main branches of traditional Chinese magic). To up the ante, Tian says magic tricks should be treated as intellectual property:Legally, however, this is a grey area. While China’s copyright laws do prohibit the obtaining, disclosing and selling of magic tricks through illicit means, they also allow different people to possess identical business secrets.