BIKRAM'S YOGA COLLEGE OF INDIA v. EVOLATION YOGA

No. 13-55763.

803 F.3d 1032 (2015)

BIKRAM'S YOGA COLLEGE OF INDIA, L.P., a California limited partnership; Bikram Choudhury, an Individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EVOLATION YOGA, LLC, a New York limited liability company; Mark Drost, an Individual; Zefea Samson, an Individual, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 8, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivana Cingel (argued), Carla Christofferson and Daniel Petrocelli , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Eric R. Maier (argued) and Louis Shoch , Maier Shoch LLP, Hermosa Beach, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Kevin M. Fong and Cydney A. Tune , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Yoga Alliance.

Before: JOHN T. NOONAN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and MARY H. MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

We must decide whether a sequence of twenty-six yoga poses and two breathing exercises developed by Bikram Choudhury and described in his 1979 book, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class, is entitled to copyright protection. This question implicates a fundamental principle underlying constitutional and statutory...

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