I’m going to solicit comments from all of you before I post my comments on this. Please read the article linked to above, and the follow the link below..You can also reference my previous blog post on this subject
This is going to be a big battle in the very near future, and I predict it will get ugly. Please weigh in with your thoughts on this issue.
“Yoga piracy is becoming very common and we are moving to do something about it,” says Vinod Gupta, the head of a recently established Indian Government taskforce on traditional knowledge and intellectual property theft. “We know of at least 150 asanas [yoga positions] that have been pirated in the US, the UK, Germany and Japan. These were developed in India long ago and no one can claim them as their own.”
Proceedings of THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FOLKLORE