Who Owns Yoga?
Indians have begun a process of copyrighting traditional medicines and physical exercise in an effort to curb corporate efforts to claim title to yoga postures and other Indian traditions. Who owns yoga?
One of the owners mentioned in this article: Bikram Choudhury Yoga, Inc. More on Bikram and its legal battles here.
What about churches? According to this article, nearly all of American churches have incorporated as state (tax-exempt) corporations.
Faith and corporations make for a strange mix.
2 comments:
It seems that the parody "Om Trademaked is not so far-fetched.
http://yogadawg.blogspot.com/2006/11/yoga-news-om-trademarked.html
When they start copyrighting meditation and prayer, that's when I'll revolt.
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