{"id":14499,"date":"2015-10-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/17\/bikram-s-yoga-can-t-have-copyright-us\/"},"modified":"2015-10-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T12:00:00","slug":"bikram-s-yoga-can-t-have-copyright-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/17\/bikram-s-yoga-can-t-have-copyright-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikram&#8217;s Yoga Can&#8217;t Have Copyright: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/151010\/world-americas\/article\/bikram's-yoga-can't-have-copyright-us\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 10, 2015 (Deccan Chronicle): Indian-American yoga guru Bikram Choudhury is not entitled to copyright protection over yoga poses and breathing exercises he uses in hot rooms developed by him, a US court ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an order by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California, a bench of three judges ruled in favour of city-based Evolation Yoga, against whom Choudhury had filed a lawsuit in 2011. In the lawsuit, Choudhury had claimed that Evolation founders, the husband-wife duo of Mark Drost and Zefea Samson had set up a &#8220;copy-cat yoga system that offers classes that utilise and infringe&#8221; on his copyrighted sequence of yoga postures.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court ruled that the sequence of yoga poses and breathing exercises developed by Choudhury was not entitled to copyright protection because &#8220;it was an idea, process, or system designed to improve health, rather than an expression of an idea.&#8221; &#8220;Because the sequence of yoga postures was an unprotectable idea, it was also ineligible for copyright protection as a compilation or choreographic work,&#8221; it said. Choudhury founded the Bikram Yoga form of exercise, which is among the most renowned forms of the art, with participants performing yoga postures in rooms heated to 40.6 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 10, 2015 (Deccan Chronicle): Indian-American yoga guru Bikram Choudhury is not entitled to copyright,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}