U.S.: Yoga-pose copyright bid too much of a stretch

Yoga poses such as head-to-knee stretches and the sequences of the moves are "exercises" rather than "choreography" and can't be copyrighted in the U.S., regulators said.

The U.S. Copyright Office previously permitted yoga poses and their sequences to be registered, even if those exercises were in the public domain, Laura Lee Fischer, acting chief of the office's Performing Arts Division, said in response to an inquiry by an attorney involved in lawsuits the founder of Bikram Yoga filed against three yoga studios.

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