Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:05:18 -0800 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 12 #126 - 10 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Subscribed-Address: kma@martialartsresource.com List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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East Rock Institute 50th Anniversary Conference (Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:54:21 -0800 (PST) From: richard kolyer To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Senior National Championships in San Jose, CA Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Can anyone local to San Jose shed any light on when and how and where to get tickets for this event? (I know it's a little early to start asking...) I imagine it'll be held at San Jose State Univ. Will they sell the tickets or will they be offered through the sponsoring organization? Who'll have the event schedule posted? -rkolyer __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Jon Payne" To: "The_Dojang" Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:03:14 -0600 Subject: [The_Dojang] People that don't matter Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net This is what I learned from my parents: If you have someone who uses false statements (lies) to make themselves out to be something they're not, more than likely if you ignore them they will go find someone else to stroke their ego. When I say ignore that means go on with your life like they never existed. To argue with them or talk about them will confirm their false sense of importance. Sincerely, Jon David Payne "Train like your life depended on it." --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] Senior National Championships in San Jose, CA To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:25:57 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > Can anyone local to San Jose shed any light on when > and how and where to get tickets for this event? (I > know it's a little early to start asking...) > > I imagine it'll be held at San Jose State Univ. Will > they sell the tickets or will they be offered through > the sponsoring organization? Who'll have the event > schedule posted? See http://www.ustu.org/104_810.htm Ray Terry rterry@idiom.com --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:28:19 -0500 From: "Yarchak, Mary Kay" To: "Dojang Digest" Subject: [The_Dojang] Trademarks and Copyrights Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net All, We have had several discussions here in the past regarding trademarks, copyrights, and patents in relation to names, sets of forms, etc. The article below relates to yoga, not KMA, but any ruling could set precedents that might be applied in our world as well. It's a bit long but check it out FWIW. Thanks for the bandwidth, Ray! MK March 26, 2005 Yoga Lawsuit Taps Open-Source Spirit By John Pallatto, eWEEK It's hard to imagine that yoga, the 5,000-year-old discipline of exercise, diet and meditation, would have anything in common with the modern software industry. But a group of loosely affiliated yoga instructors based in California have embraced the philosophy of the open-source software movement in fighting a campaign by a richly successful yoga master to use copyright law to bar competitors from practicing any part of his exercise routines without authorization. India-born Bikram Choudhury has gained rock-star status in the clannish world of yoga, which has long been taught by independent local practitioners who train relatively small groups of dedicated yoga aficionados in towns and cities across the country. But the yoga community has also grown steadily in the United States, where as many as 16.5 million fitness-conscious people practice the discipline, according to Yoga Journal. Based in the always trend-conscious Los Angeles area, Choudhury has accumulated wealth and a large following with his style of yoga training, in which he leads practitioners in 26 yoga positions and breathing exercises in rooms heated to sweltering temperatures. Recognizing the value of this lucrative practice, Choudhury did what many smart businesspeople and software-industry entrepreneurs have done: He protected his intellectual-property rights by declaring on his Web site in February, 2003, that his yoga routine, called "Bikram's Basic Yoga System" or simply "Bikram Yoga" was copyrighted and trademarked. With the copyrights in hand and a couple of books to his credit, Bikram has focused on building a network of instructors trained and licensed to teach his style, which is also known as "hot yoga" because of its reliance on heated training studios to enhance the conditioning effect of the exercises. Choudhury also follows software industry practice in the way he requires authorized instructors to be re-certified each year, in the same way that software companies require annual fees to certify individuals as qualified to maintain certain network servers or operating systems. Choudhury has also been aggressive in defending his copyrights, sending lawyerly cease-and-desist letters to yoga instructors who have the temerity to teach variations of his yoga routine in heated rooms. The letters and threats of lawsuits prompted a group of yoga instructors to organize themselves in early 2003 as Open Source Yoga Unity (OSYU), an organization with the expressed purpose of opposing "the litigious position Bikram Choudhury is taking against the Yoga community by his attempted enforcement of copyright protection." The group currently consists of a nine-member board of directors and about 25 other "loosely affiliated" yoga instructors and practitioners, according to the group's lawyer, James Harrison of Sacramento, Calif. In July 2003, the group filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, hard by Silicon Valley, where intellectual property lawyers are nearly as numerous as movie stars in Beverly Hills, Calif., Choudhury's home turf. OSYU in essence is asking the court to rule that Choudhury's copyright claims are unenforceable because they are based on yoga positions and practices that have been in use for literally thousands of years and thus are in the public domain, Harrison said. The group has adopted that mantra of the open source software movement that any technology or practice that is in the public domain can be freely used, Harrison said. OSYU won the opening round of the litigation in April 2004 when Judge Phyllis Hamilton rejected the motion of Choudhury's attorney that the case should be dismissed because OSYU lacked the legal standing to pursue its lawsuit. Both sides are scheduled to meet Monday to try to negotiate a settlement before the case goes to trial, Harrison said. He declined to comment on the prospects of a settlement. Choudhury's lawyer, Susan Hollander with the firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, in Palo Alto, Calif., did not return phone calls Friday seeking comment on the case. Harrison expressed confidence that OSYU had a strong case to counter Choudhury's copyright claims. The key question raised by OSYU's lawsuit is whether Choudhury "can control another person's practice of yoga or teaching of yoga just because he wrote a book about it," Harrison said. Choudhury can't claim any of his positions are unique because they have been used for thousands of years, he said. Choudhury's attempt to copyright yoga positions would be like the New York Yankees inventing a new pitching style and trying to copyright it to prevent all other pitchers or baseball teams from using it. Such ideas "start spinning into the absurd," and no court would uphold such claims, Harrison said. The closest legal parallel to what Choudhury is attempting would be a someone who copyrighted a dance choreography, Harrison suggested. Dance choreography could be copyrighted, But dance "is expressive art. [Yoga] is exercise not expression. It is not saying anything," Harrison said. Therefore it can't be copyrighted under the law, he said. What it boils down to, Harrison said, is that Choudhury has attempted to copyright a process. "You can't copyright a process and yoga is exercise -- a process of conditioning the human body," Harrison. People can apply to get a patent for a process, but "Choudhury hasn't tried to patent anything." The situation has also been likened to an author publishing and copyrighting a cookbook, Harrison said. "You can copyright a cookbook, but you can't keep someone from teaching cooking," Harrison said. OSYU members just want to do what they have always done, to freely practice and teach yoga as it has been taught since ancient times, Harrison said. If the settlement negotiations fail it will be up to the court to decide whether Choudhury's copyright claims are an exercise in futility. --__--__-- Message: 5 From: "Kip McCormick" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: RE: [The_Dojang] May Taekwondo Times Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:11:30 -0800 Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Does anyone actually read TKD Times? Kip >From: "Todd Miller" >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >To: >Subject: [The_Dojang] May Taekwondo Times >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:13:49 -0500 > >Has anyone read the May issue of TKD Times? > >Todd Miller >Korea Jungki Hapkido & Guhapdo Association >_______________________________________________ >The_Dojang mailing list, 2000 members >The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net >Copyright 1994-2005: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource >Standard disclaimers apply >http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "Frank Clay" To: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:16:42 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] May TKDT Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Todd, Are you talking about Rick Love on the Martial Arts show that isn't televised anywhere? Funny... when I was down there once he said he wrestled in Japan under that name. --__--__-- Message: 7 From: Ray Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] May Taekwondo Times To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:21:46 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net I still have the May 2004 issue, and all issues since in a stack, that I haven't taken the time to read/skim yet... Todd, what is in the May 2005 issue? Ray > Does anyone actually read TKD Times? > Kip > > >To: > >Subject: [The_Dojang] May Taekwondo Times > >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:13:49 -0500 > > > >Has anyone read the May issue of TKD Times? --__--__-- Message: 8 From: Ray Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] May TKDT To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:44:03 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > Todd, > > Are you talking about Rick Love on the Martial Arts show that isn't > televised anywhere? Funny... when I was down there once he said he wrestled > in Japan under that name. Check out Matt Furey's website. There is an email there from Hack thanking Furey for the "Combat Abs" program, claims it allowed him to drop 20" off his waist! I kid you not. He claims that his love life is re-energized. And... "I now have a leading role on a tv show called 'Turning Up The Heat!' as the character 'Rick Love' and will be in Korea to play on a new tv show there called 'Heat Wave'." Maybe Andrew or Tony and tell us how Dr. Love does in Turning up the Heat. :) Ray Terry rterry@idiom.com --__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:21:11 -0500 (EST) From: "A. Boyd" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] corporation... Re: KHF Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Perhaps they translated "Sah Dan Bub In" that way...? Anthony Boyd: Swordsman and English Teacher hdgdforum.com ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --__--__-- Message: 10 From: Ray To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:17:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [The_Dojang] East Rock Institute 50th Anniversary Conference Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Press Release Contact Person: Hesung Chun Koh 203-624-6266 203-624-8619 Conference websites: www.ericonference.org; www.teachkoreacorps.org We take great pride in announcing East Rock Institute’s 50th Anniversary Conference, “Bridging Cultures: Trailblazers and Visionaries,” which is being held at the Yale University Campus from April 8th-10th. This conference is being organized by East Rock Institute in cooperation with the Yale Korean Graduate Students Association, and is being funded by the Korea Foundation, the Overseas Koreans Foundation, Academy of Korean Studies and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Korea Daily. This conference celebrates over half a century of ERI’s commitment in promoting cultural understanding between the east and west, with particular emphasis on the US and Korea. The conference will provide an arena for dialog, learning, and networking for young professionals, aspiring students and teachers, and community leaders. ERI’s long-awaited project, Teach Korea Corp, is the title of an innovative national pilot project designed to further understanding in multicultural classrooms with information that is relevant, interesting, and useful. The current Connecticut high school curriculum contains no more than a page and a half of general information on this highly important country. We wish to correct this omission while promoting a positive understanding between the U.S. and Korea. Such a mutual understanding is urgent, due to North Korea’s status as the most dangerous country in the world. With this national pilot project, we can help both teachers and students to gain cross-cultural competency, which is becoming increasingly important due to the rapidly paced globalization taking place in the world today. After the initial project is launched, we expect this enhancement to set the standard in high school curriculums. This conference includes a rich variety of art in the form of music and dance, including: -Lecture by an eminent scholar of Korean aesthetics -Slide lecture by a internationally renown Korean American architect -Korean Intangible National Treasure # 27, featuring the art of Buddhist Dance -an award winning quartet -the notable Yale Singing Group -an innovative composer and performer of Korean traditional string music and western jazz We have enclosed the latest draft of our conference schedule and registration information (or visit our website at www.eastrockinstitute.org). We hope you will be able to join us in this wonderful ground breaking experience, and look forward to hearing from you soon. If you have any question please call or write to the following: Debra Tillolson or Leo Youngjun Kim at 203-624-8619 or Email: eri3@pantheon.yale.edu Sincerely: Conference Co-Chair Robert G. LaCamera, MD and Charles C.S. Kim, MD Young Professionals Retreat Chair: Christopher Park, MD and Ph.D. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/the_dojang Copyright 1994-2005: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. End of The_Dojang Digest