Can’t Take the Heat: No Copyright Protection for Bikram Yoga Sequence
After years of litigation in multiple cases spanning more than a decade, the Bikram Yoga copyright controversy may finally be resolved. In an opinion rendered…
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Live Tweeting from 9th Circuit Oral Arguments in Bikram Yoga Case
I will be in the Ninth Circuit’s Pasadena, CA courthouse (Courtroom 1) this Friday morning to live tweet from the oral arguments in Bikram’s Yoga…
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Bikram Yoga Copyright Redux, Part 4
Part 4 of my series on the Bikram yoga copyright controversy breaks down Evolation’s answering brief. The appellees, winners on summary judgment regarding copyright invalidity…
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Bikram Yoga Copyright Redux, Part 3
The Bikram yoga copyright controversy is finally coming to a head with oral arguments scheduled in less than two weeks before the 9th Circuit. In…
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Bikram Yoga Copyright Redux, Part 2
In Part 2 of my series on the Bikram yoga copyright controversy, I analyze the district court opinions in the OSYU and Evolation cases, and…
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Bikram Yoga Copyright Redux, Part 1
The Bikram yoga copyright controversy arguably ranks as one of the most (if not the most) interesting copyright dispute of this century thus far. While…