SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing exercises used in hot yoga classes is not entitled to copyright protection. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

No matter how graceful the flow or beautiful the poses may be, the Federal Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit held that Bikram Choudhury’s sequence known as Bikram Yoga – 26 poses performed in the ...

A recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the federal appellate court for Arizona and California, has made a predictable determination that a sequence of yoga moves cannot ...

Sure, DC Comics can copyright the Batmobile. However, Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, infamous for his hot yoga, cannot copyright his popular 26-posture sequence that also contains two breathing exercises ...

(CN) - Indian yoga guru Bikram Choudhury cannot copyright a sequence of 26 yoga poses and breathing exercises that he has been offering since 1971, a federal judge ruled. In 1994, over 20 years after ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Bikram yogis are fiercely committed to their practice. For many Bikram practitioners, no other yoga class will suffice. That’s because ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled against a celebrity yogi on Thursday, finding that he is not entitled to copyright protection for a sequence of 26 yoga poses and two breathing ...

Bikram Choudhury — the multimillionaire founder of Bikram Yoga, a 90-minute sequence of 26 traditional poses performed in a heated room — has long maintained the inviolability of his technique, so ...

Yoga originates from India and is at least 3,500 to 5,000 years old, depending on the source. The core idea is to connect the ...

Good news for practitioners of yoga: Bikram Choudhury has encountered another setback in his long quest to prevent competitors from teaching the sequence of 26 postures that characterize Bikram yoga.