Bikram's Yoga College of India, L.P. v. Evolation Yoga, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a sequence of yoga poses and breathing exercises were an idea, system, or process that could not be copyrighted
• agreeing that copyright protection for choreography remains “an uncharted area of the law”
• “[R]ecognizing this vital distinction between ideas' and expression, courts have routinely held that the copyright for a work describing how to perform a process does not extend to the process itself.”
• “[C]opyright for a work describing how to perform a process does not extend to the process itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).