NCLAT: Can’t Dismiss Restoration App. if Filed in 30 Days from Date of Dismissal of Original App. || Delhi HC: Communication between Parties through Whatsapp Constitute Valid Agreement || Delhi HC Seeks Response from Govt. Over Penalties on Petrol Pumps Supplying Fuel to Old Vehicles || Centre Notifies "Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Rules, 2025" || Del. HC: Can’t Reject TM Owner’s Claim Merely because Defendant Could have Sought Removal of Mark || Bombay HC: Cannot Treat Sole Director of OPC, Parallelly with Separate Legal Entity || Delhi HC: Can Apply 'Family of Marks' Concept to Injunct Specific Marks || HP HC: Can’t Set Aside Ex-Parte Decree for Mere Irregularity || Cal. HC: Order by HC Bench Not Conferred With Determination by Roster is Void || Calcutta HC: Purchase Order Including Arbitration Agreement to Prevail Over Tax Invoice Lacking it

Bikram’s Yoga College of India, L.P. and Bikram Choudhury v. Evolation Yoga, LLC and others - (08 Oct 2015)

US Court of Appeal holds sequence of yoga poses not copyrightable

Intellectual Property Rights

A Court of Appeal in the United States of America ruled that the sequence used in ‘hot yoga’ classes was a process intended to improve people's health, and wasn’t covered under copyright. Hot yoga is performed in a room heated to about 105 degrees (that’s Fahrenheit, or as most Indians know it, summertime) and includes 26 postures and two breathing exercises performed for 90 minutes. Dismissing the appeal for many reasons, the Court held the “particularly beautiful and graceful” postures could not be classified as choreographic work and were excluded under Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act, 1976.

Tags : COPYRIGHT YOGA HOT CHOREOGRAPHIC

Share :