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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected a claim that a series of yoga sequences is protected by US copyright law.

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 ...

Tiffany Friedman fell in love with Bikram yoga in 1999. She had just had a daughter, and was running the office for her husband's dermatology practice when a Bikram studio opened down the street from ...