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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:01 PM
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12. What's lame is culture vultures in the US trying to patent yoga moves
which is what prompted the response in India. You might want to reread the article.
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  - India moves to patent yoga poses in bid to protect traditional knowledge babylonsister  Feb-23-09 01:26 PM   #0 
  - Good luck with that.  ogneopasno   Feb-23-09 01:28 PM   #1 
  - I think I'm going to patent fire because my ancestors invented it.  tridim   Feb-23-09 01:29 PM   #2 
  - I'm going to patent potatoes  HarukaTheTrophyWife   Feb-23-09 01:31 PM   #3 
  - I'm going to patent starving. Then I'll get royalties from the 3rd world!  JVS   Feb-23-09 01:44 PM   #6 
  - If you had read the rest of the story, they're doing this in response to greedy  babylonsister   Feb-23-09 01:34 PM   #4 
  - did you read the article?  frylock   Feb-23-09 01:43 PM   #5 
  - negatory, Big Ben.  burythehatchet   Feb-23-09 02:12 PM   #19 
  - I admit I didn't, but the point still remains.  tridim   Feb-23-09 02:22 PM   #22 
     - Apparently you can or they would not be doing this in response to Americans doing it  FreeState   Feb-23-09 02:46 PM   #30 
     - Tell that to the people who stole Pilates from its founder. (nt)  Ignis   Feb-23-09 04:09 PM   #40 
  - actually its very very lame america. read the article. nt  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 01:49 PM   #7 
  - What's lame is culture vultures in the US trying to patent yoga moves  Matariki   Feb-23-09 02:01 PM   #12 
  - Read the article. They are doing it because Western teachers ARE patenting moves as their own.  Bolo Boffin   Feb-23-09 02:40 PM   #26 
  - Bad yoga teachers to try to patent moves.  uppityperson   Feb-23-09 01:50 PM   #8 
  - While I'm thinking about it, consider this my formal notice  Uncle Joe   Feb-23-09 01:52 PM   #9 
  - So will African nations be patenting the upright position and walking?  randr   Feb-23-09 01:56 PM   #10 
  - only if america first decided to patent walking. which you would know, if you read the article  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 02:02 PM   #13 
  - GREED  liberal N proud   Feb-23-09 01:59 PM   #11 
  - and in this case, this is an end result of american greed. nt  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 02:02 PM   #14 
  - Pure greed. I wonder what will happen when some corporation patents oxygen nt  conspirator   Feb-23-09 03:35 PM   #37 
  - I want to trademark "giving the finger."  TexasObserver   Feb-23-09 02:06 PM   #15 
  - i find it amusing how may people didnt read the article. nt  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 02:07 PM   #16 
  - There with you - read the OP people! Your making fools of yourself  FreeState   Feb-23-09 02:43 PM   #27 
  - i find it amusing how may people didnt read the article. nt  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 02:07 PM   #17 
  - Don't you hate it when posters make passive aggressive whines?  TexasObserver   Feb-23-09 03:20 PM   #35 
  - ...to protect their culture from Americans who would patent it.  Cerridwen   Feb-23-09 02:08 PM   #18 
  - There is nothing in this universe that commercialism has not corrupted and defiled. Nothing.  burythehatchet   Feb-23-09 02:12 PM   #20 
  - And what does that mean for people who do yoga?  GreenPartyVoter   Feb-23-09 02:17 PM   #21 
  - Not a thing. It just means greedy foreigners can't make money  babylonsister   Feb-23-09 02:38 PM   #24 
     - What about gyms that charge for classes?  GreenPartyVoter   Feb-23-09 03:39 PM   #38 
        - I wouldn't think so. There'd be no way to  babylonsister   Feb-23-09 03:45 PM   #39 
  - When the documented inventors are centuries dead?  Orsino   Feb-23-09 02:23 PM   #23 
  - They are doing this to stop American's from patenting them - n/t  FreeState   Feb-23-09 02:44 PM   #28 
  - you didnt read it either, did you?  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 02:45 PM   #29 
     - I did.  Orsino   Feb-23-09 03:08 PM   #32 
        - well why do you think india shouldnt be able to patent them, when americans are?  La Lioness Priyanka   Feb-23-09 03:13 PM   #34 
           - I understand your reaction now.  Orsino   Feb-23-09 03:34 PM   #36 
  - Next thing dance moves? Jokes? Facial expressions?  Clear Blue Sky   Feb-23-09 02:40 PM   #25 
  - A very logical consequence of the modern US intellectual property rights theory...  JackRiddler   Feb-23-09 02:51 PM   #31 
     - Exactly. n/t  Bolo Boffin   Feb-23-09 03:09 PM   #33 
 

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