SAN FRANCISCO — Bikram yoga aficionados can stretch and sweat with impunity following a Ninth Circuit ruling that the practice’s signature sequence of poses is not copyrightable.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday found that yogi Bikram Choudhury’s series of 26 yoga poses and two breathing exercises is an “unprotectable idea,” and that Choudhury cannot restrict its use.
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