Patriot Heart
09-23-2005, 07:41 AM
Intellectual piracy?? You gotta be kidding.http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/biglaugh.gif
India makes moves to reclaim heritage from 'yoga piracy'
By David Orr
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
September 23, 2005
NEW DELHI -- The Indian government is furious that yoga practices dating back thousands of years are being "stolen" by gurus and fitness instructors in Europe and the United States.
Foreign practitioners are already said to have claimed hundreds of patents and copyrights on poses and techniques lifted straight from classical Indian yoga treatises.
"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 task force on traditional knowledge and intellectual-property theft.
SNIP
According to one report, attempts have even been made in America to patent the syllable "om," the sacred sound with which Hindus begin their chants.
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050922-114821-4035r
India makes moves to reclaim heritage from 'yoga piracy'
By David Orr
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
September 23, 2005
NEW DELHI -- The Indian government is furious that yoga practices dating back thousands of years are being "stolen" by gurus and fitness instructors in Europe and the United States.
Foreign practitioners are already said to have claimed hundreds of patents and copyrights on poses and techniques lifted straight from classical Indian yoga treatises.
"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 task force on traditional knowledge and intellectual-property theft.
SNIP
According to one report, attempts have even been made in America to patent the syllable "om," the sacred sound with which Hindus begin their chants.
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050922-114821-4035r