Open Source Yoga
2003-08-03 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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OUR MISSION
Open Source Yoga Unity (OSYU), a nonprofit California corporation, was formed to provide a common voice, and the pooling of resources, to oppose the litigious position Bikram Choudhury is taking against the Yoga community by his attempted enforcement of copyright protection.
It is OSYU's mandate to resist the enforcement of the copyright protection of any Yoga style thereby ensuring its continued natural unfettered practice for all to enjoy and develop.
While we appreciate the teachings of Bikram Choudhury, he does not have the legal right to impose control over another's Yoga teaching or practice. Yoga exists in the public domain.
Each of Bikram's beginning yoga class poses has existed in the public domain for many - many years. These and other Yoga asanas are constantly being performed in varying sequences, none of which are ownable under Copyright law.
Bikram can lay no claim to the uniqueness or ownership of Bikram's beginning yoga asanas as they were taught to him by his guru and his school in India, which has made public statements regarding the free offering of yoga to all people.
OUR MISSION
Open Source Yoga Unity (OSYU), a nonprofit California corporation, was formed to provide a common voice, and the pooling of resources, to oppose the litigious position Bikram Choudhury is taking against the Yoga community by his attempted enforcement of copyright protection.
It is OSYU's mandate to resist the enforcement of the copyright protection of any Yoga style thereby ensuring its continued natural unfettered practice for all to enjoy and develop.
While we appreciate the teachings of Bikram Choudhury, he does not have the legal right to impose control over another's Yoga teaching or practice. Yoga exists in the public domain.
Each of Bikram's beginning yoga class poses has existed in the public domain for many - many years. These and other Yoga asanas are constantly being performed in varying sequences, none of which are ownable under Copyright law.
Bikram can lay no claim to the uniqueness or ownership of Bikram's beginning yoga asanas as they were taught to him by his guru and his school in India, which has made public statements regarding the free offering of yoga to all people.
Open source
Date: 2003-08-03 12:17 am (UTC)I'm upset that these people might actually screw up enough to tarnish the name of Open Source. I emailed them to this effect.
Open Source is also a registered trademark if memory servers, but I did not bring this up in my initial email.
I have worked for years to legitamize the Open Source Community, their products and their acceptance into the marketplace.
This pisses me off - because the only thing this organization is created to do is sue someone.