Editing Contact juggling (section)

==Controversy==
Some jugglers have claimed that portions of the book ''Contact Juggling'' and any juggling performances that contain elements similar to Michael Moschen's original "Light" performance are breaches of Moschen's [[intellectual property]] or [[copyright]]. In 1992, Michael Moschen threatened not to attend the [[International Jugglers' Association]] annual conference in Quebec, Canada, where he was to be a guest of honor, due to [[Ted Alspach]]'s favorable review of the book ''Contact Juggling'' in the Fall 1991 issue of the IJA's periodical, ''Juggler's World''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alspach|first1=Ted|title=Contact Juggling|journal=Juggler's World|issue=Fall 1991|url=https://www.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/43-3/43-3,p15.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016001928/http://www.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/43-3/43-3%2Cp15.htm|archive-date=16 October 2013}}</ref> In the end, Moschen did attend the festival.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Moschen Searches His Soul For Creative Spark|journal=Juggler's World|issue=Fall 1992|url=https://www.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/44-3/44-3,p18.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016002036/http://www.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/44-3/44-3%2Cp18.htm|archive-date=16 October 2013}}</ref>

The wide commercial success of the "Fushigi Magic Gravity Ball" in 2010 reignited the controversy within the contact juggling community. The television advertisement consisted of a montage of contact juggling performance, the amazed reactions of audience members, suggestions that the ball appeared to float by itself, and an announcer suggesting that the ball can be quickly mastered "in just minutes."<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/4EPAZgogDTA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331175403/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EPAZgogDTA Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EPAZgogDTA| title = Fushigi Ball Commercial | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Concerned about the public depiction of contact juggling being accomplished not by skill but by means of a special prop, contact jugglers quickly filled a Fushigi thread to 100 pages on contactjuggling.org. The Winter 2010 edition of the IJA's periodical ''Juggle'' features a 4-page article about "the Dynamic/Contact/Sphereplay/Fushigi Controversy" by Brad Weston, including an interview with the president of Zoom TV Products, the marketing firm that produced the Fushigi ball.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weston |first1=Brad |year=2010 |title=The Dynamic/Contact/Sphereplay/Fushigi Controversy |journal=Juggle Magazine |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=26–29 }}</ref> The following issue featured a rebuttal by a professional contact juggler accusing Zoom TV Products of exploiting contact juggling to sell a deceptively marketed product.<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Hartnell|first1 = Richard|year = 2011|title = Feedback: Looking Into A Crystal Ball|journal = Juggle Magazine|volume = 13|issue = 1|pages = 9–10}}</ref> The Fushigi ball quickly fell out of production.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}