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 ...

On Friday, the Central District of California held that a series of yoga poses designed to improve health is not copyrightable, dismissing claims of copyright infringement bought by Bikram Choudhury ...

(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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The founder of a popular form of yoga that is performed in a room heated to more than 100 degrees lost a court appeal Thursday to copyright a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bikram Choudhury had sued his former protege for copying trademarked yoga poses. Dec. 3, 2012— -- Bikram Choudhury, one of the world's most successful yoga gurus and a pioneer of "hot yoga," has ...

Over the last half century there has been an explosion in the popularity of yoga in the United States, much of it attributable to Bikram Choudhury, the self-proclaimed “Yogi to the Stars.” In 1979, he ...

Within the yoga community, and among people who follow the practice, Bikram Choudhury is alternately seen as a disgusting sexual predator, a power-hungry narcissist, the inevitable product of yoga's ...

To his hard-bodied disciples, Bikram Choudhury is a yoga rock star. Jan. 16, 2012— -- To his hard-bodied disciples, Bikram Choudhury is a yoga rock star. Bikram, who, like Madonna, tends to go by ...