Fwd: Bikram goes to the mat

From: Steven Jamar <sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:20:01 -0500

A former student sent me this. I thought it might be of interest to the list.

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Bikram goes to the mat

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By copyrighting a sequence of yoga poses, a guru upset the discipline's harmonic balance. Now he's in court.

By Hilary E. MacGregor
Times Staff Writer

March 21 2005

If yoga has been around for 5,000 years, can a 21st century businessman claim to own a piece of it? Bikram Choudhury says yes.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he- yogacase21mar21,1,6477946.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

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