http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26376/yoga-poses-can%e2%80%99t-be-copyrighted-u-s-regulator-says http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26376/yoga-poses-can%e2%80%99t-be-copyrighted-u-s-regulator-says#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:39:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26376 The U.S. Copyright Office previously permitted yoga poses and their sequences to be registered, even if those exercises were in the public domain, Laura Lee Fischer, acting chief of the office’s Performing Arts Division, said in response to an inquiry by an attorney involved in lawsuits the founder of Bikram Yoga filed against three yoga studios.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26376/yoga-poses-can%e2%80%99t-be-copyrighted-u-s-regulator-says/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26379/lawsuit-pits-bikram-choudhury-and-yoga-to-the-people http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26379/lawsuit-pits-bikram-choudhury-and-yoga-to-the-people#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:15:03 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26379 Bikram Choudhury, the millionaire founder of Bikram Yoga, believes his kind of yoga belongs to him -- he has even copyrighted it.

Now, he has sued Yoga to the People for copyright infringement, seeking monetary damages and asking a federal judge to block Yoga to the People from offering its hot yoga class.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26379/lawsuit-pits-bikram-choudhury-and-yoga-to-the-people/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23597/bikram-yogas-new-twists http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23597/bikram-yogas-new-twists#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:35:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23597 Bikram Choudhury's sweaty techniques are a hit with yoga studios. Now he wants his cut, writes Forbes.

Yoga is big business, racking up $5.7 billion in sales last year, and Choudhury has built a cultlike following.

Recent training costs: $10,500 per session, including $3,000 for room and board in Palm Desert, Calif. At two sessions a year, each of which draw about 325 trainees, that's $4.9 million in annual revenue. To that add 15 speaking engagements, generating about $20,000 each in ticket sales, plus another few bucks from books and dvds. "I'm a yogi, not a businessman," Choudhury demurs.

Now he wants another revenue stream: franchising fees paid by studios that use his name.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23597/bikram-yogas-new-twists/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9861/health-fears-over-cult-like-hot-yoga http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9861/health-fears-over-cult-like-hot-yoga#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:48:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9861 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9861/health-fears-over-cult-like-hot-yoga/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6009/new-twist-to-yoga-positions-as-guru-sues http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6009/new-twist-to-yoga-positions-as-guru-sues#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:53:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=6009 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6009/new-twist-to-yoga-positions-as-guru-sues/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/851/yoga-and-the-art-of-making-money http://www.religionnewsblog.com/851/yoga-and-the-art-of-making-money#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2002 02:38:32 +0000 Editor http:/?p=851 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/851/yoga-and-the-art-of-making-money/feed 0