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Yoga patented
« on: 11 April 2005, 13:51 »
Folks have been practising yoga for thousands of years. So to copyright the technique called Bikram Yoga is therefore ludicrous. Some must have blackberry jam inside there heads instead of a brain.

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Re: Yoga patented
« Reply #1 on: 11 April 2005, 15:19 »
There's solid proof that yoga excisted for more than a hundred years, and that the original author is dead by now.

So why not letting the patent being expired?

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Re: Yoga patented
« Reply #2 on: 11 April 2005, 16:25 »
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On first impression, it thus seems inappropriate, and almost unbelievable, that a sequence of yoga positions could be any one person's intellectual property.


In that case, I shall Copyright the well-know two-fingers swearing jesture :|
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