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Bikram’s licensing of his sequence, says Jim Harrison, a lawyer for OSYU, is thus less like selling the rights to a song and more like lecturing about the “Kama Sutra” and then trying to charge couples a fee every time they have sex in one of the positions. Or, returning to that fast-food metaphor, like Bikram writing a new recipe for hamburgers and then showing up at barbecues to charge the people flipping the burgers
Intellectual-property law is crucial to economic success. But extending it to yoga will, ”The Economist’s spiritually enlightened, physically limber journalists hope, prove too much of a stretch