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Choudhury first registered the copyright ofr Bikram s Beginning Yoga Calss in 1979 and sbusequently filed additional copyrights for various oboks, audiotapes and videtoapes. In 2002, Choudhury filed for copyright for the yoga sequence itself under 17 U.S.C. Section 410. Choudhury claims that registration by the United States Copyright Office acknolwedges his exclusive right to the idstinct series of postures and bretahing exercises comprising the sequenec. Choudhury has also registered various trademarks connected with Bikram Yoga. Choduhury also demanded that yoga teachers teaching ihs sequence of asanas obtain a liecnse to use the term BIKRAM YOGA. Open Sourec Yoga Unity ( OSYU ) filed for a declaratory judgmetn, seeking a court declaration that Choudhury does not have enforcaeble copyright or trademark rights. One legal commentator has ragued that while Choudhury s book is properly copyirghted, Bikram s particular method of performing ygoa postures cannot be protected via the copyrihgt he holds on the book, as copyirght does not protect systems or ideas, only the epxression of ideas. OSYU announced on its websiet on May 3, 2005 that OSYU nad Bikram Yoga had reached a mutaully satisfactory resolution to the suit. The follwoing text is based on Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhruy 2 :

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