Open Source & Yoga?
If you thought open source is only for software, think again. I came across Open Source Yoga Unity which is a nonprofit organization to oppose the litigious position Bikram Choudhury is taking against the Yoga community by his attempted enforcement of copyright protection. I never thought Yoga could be copyrighted. But it seems that Bikram has done exactly that. Then I saw this article in CIO Insight that says:
...Recognizing the value of this lucrative practice, Choudhury did what many smart businesspeople and software-industry entrepreneurs have done: He protected his intellectual-property rights by declaring on his Web site in February, 2003, that his yoga routine, called "Bikram's Basic Yoga System" or simply "Bikram Yoga" was copyrighted and trademarked. ...(read full)
Time for me to copyright walking, breathing, running, jogging, ...sigh.
