Court tells millionaire yoga troll Bikram Choudhury that poses can’t be copyrighted

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Bikram Choudhury, the millionaire accused serial rapist who popularized hot yoga in America, sued other hot yoga studios in 2003, including “open source yoga” practicioners, asserting that he held a copyright over the sequence of poses conducted in his class.

Now, more than a decade later, the US Federal Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit has told him to stick it up his sacral chakra.

Previously, Choudhury had expressed confidence in the outcome, stating “I have balls like atom bombs, two of them, 100 megatons each. Nobody fucks with me.”

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