Is baked goods taster still available? B/c I want that. (I think I’ve earned it!)

Whether or not it constitutes choreography was actually the more interesting and closer question. It could have gone either way due to the complete absence of case law on this question and would have a much broader impact on copyright law—which is why I hoped the court would have addressed it. The bar for creative…

Wrong factually and legally.

I don’t agree with that analysis either (which is basically “b/c he said it causes health benefits, therefore it is an uncopyrightable idea/system”) for multiple reasons, including its conflict with other law (e.g. other functional literary works are entitled to copyright protection and are not “uncopyrightable ideas”…

I’ll come, but no way I’m still a lawyer in the new world! (Presuming all records of my student loans were destroyed in The Revolution)

I don’t know what you mean by “particular representation of them.” That is not really a thing. The court in the opinion didn’t decide exactly how the work should be categorized, but if choreography, if you have copyright over a series of poses you have copyright over that series of poses. Period. If someone performs…

True—but it I had read various articles on this and earlier iterations of this case (incl. legal publications) and this is a repeated theme—"Yoga is so old and yogis are so pure that copyrighting yoga is antithetical to what it is"—none of which has any relevance to copyright, and I think comes from a warm fuzzy view…

Very true. Which is what was at issue in the case—he didn't claim ownership of the poses, just the selection and arrangement of the poses. It was basically a choreography argument.

"Choudhury’s insistence that this particular sequence should be his intellectual property is generally ridiculous, given that yoga was around for thousands of years before the word “copyright” was even invented."

Another thing I love about traveling: The room alarm going off at 7am, as it was set by the last hotel guest.

That is actually pretty true, or at least an existing theory (maybe not about the animal part, but the initial worship of women as gods b/c they were understood as randomly creating life). When I visited a museum in Turkey with a lot of antiquities, it included a lot of "mother-god" sculptures and the docent gave the…

A white boy or a black girl would not be suspended in the same way. People view whiteness as morality, and femaleness as powerlessness; a white boy “doesn’t mean any harm” (even though he’s certainly capable of it if he stares hard enough, apparently), and a black girl is entirely incapable of harm (and everything…

So....basically a Soul Train line.

No. No crocheted dresses, ever. This looks like it should be on Regretsy—esp with the panty line and flesh toned panties peeking out and apparently nipple pasties as well. Just, so much no.

CUTE! I like the second one even better actually. Would definitely rock.

Women, even ugly ones, are easily able to have sex with almost any man they choose, some men will even pay for the privilege. When something is easily attainable, it is worth less.

Pope Francis ✔@Pontifex

This is like, my FAVORITE song. I get so excited when I see this.

That explains so much....

No. Go away and let us bask in the glory that is Jesse Williams. No runner ups. All other men cease to exist. (Sorry, husband. #itiswhatitis)