January 15, 2014 3:36:50 am
Court held that yoga was not choreographic work.
The Delhi High Court has held that no one can be given copyright over pranic healing asanas and other yoga techniques, as they are neither original literary works nor dramatic works.
In a lengthy judgment on the legal principles involved in copyright and trademark law, Justice Manmohan Singh held that “without testing the novelty in any appropriate art or technique and giving monopoly over performance art or exercising techniques which are apparently pre-existing in the ancient history of India would be a serious intrusion into the public domain.”
The 150-page judgment was pronounced on a suit for injunction filed by the Philippines-based Institute for Inner Studies, seeking prohibitory orders to restrain the Pranic Healing…
