Dogged by sexual harassment allegations, the ultrasuccessful hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury has been playing defense lately in the courts. But the controversial yogi has waged a legal offensive on another front, suing yoga studios for allegedly breaching a copyright on his sweat-inducing sequence of poses and breathing exercises.
One of Choudhury’s targets, Evolation Yoga LLC, has now cut off that line of attack with the help of Eric Maier of the two-lawyer, Los Angeles-based litigation shop Maier Shoch. In an Oct. 8 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit not only rejected copyright infringement claims against Evolation, but found that Choudhury never held valid rights to his yoga routine in the first place.
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