The Sacramento Bee reports that the Bikram yoga battle rages on as the famous yogi, Bikram Choudhury, faces a large contingent of yoga center owners who have now banded together to fight Choudhury's claim that he owns a copyright in Bikram yoga. After receiving cease and desist letters from Choudhury, some yoga instructors formed a collective and filed a declaratory judgment lawsuit to establish that Choudhury did not own a copyright or trademark rights in Bikram yoga or in yoga positions. See blog entry dated February 10, 2004.
Posted by franchiselawblog at June 29, 2004 03:39 PM