Bikram Choudhury, “creator” of a popular type of yoga, is now claiming a copyright in the style and demanding royalties. No word yet whether the estates of the authors of the Upanishads — or for that matter, the entire subcontinent — will counter-sue. See a lively and amusing discussion on Metafilter.

Tantek Celik has recently released some useful CSS examples (with accompanying commentary) under a Creative Commons attribution license. Check out Tantek’s reasoning for the move.

“Time was when the art of arrangement” — the creative reinterpretation of songs — “occupied an honored place in musical composition.” “Bach, Mozart, Liszt and Ravel,” writes Liszt biographer Alan Walker in the New York Times, “were among the many composers who lavished their talents on this important activity, fitting out their own works or…

Our weblog now takes comments. So if you’ve got feedback about the several potential license innovations we debuted this week — a sampling option, an educational use option, a link-back requirement, and a safe harbor for commercial search engines — please post your thoughts and let public discussion begin.

This is the fourth in a series of posts calling for comment on potential innovations to our licenses. This post deal with a potential enhancement to the language of our current “noncommercial use” option. Indexterity (Innovation 2b) Our noncommercial language currently includes an explicit safe harbor for file-sharing (which, under U.S. law, is considered to…