This is not about yoga. This is about the ability to patent a camera angle. Yes, you read that right. A patent has been issued for using a specific camera angle. Not a difficult one or an ingenious one. Just a specific, common one.

This is not about yoga. This is about the ability to patent a camera angle. Yes, you read that right. A patent has been issued for using a specific camera angle. Not a difficult one or an ingenious one. Just a specific, common one. 

Via Kimberly Chapman 

Originally shared by Hilah Johnson

I wasn't familiar with this company before I read about this, and now I have nothing but an awful opinion of them. YogaGlo  is a for-profit, subscription-based, yoga video website that has managed to patent a camera angle (and not even a creative one, at that. Pretty much the first camera angle any amateur would set up to shoot a yoga class). They then sent "cease and desist" letters to non-profit websites who also make yoga videos. 

This is a very bad precedent to set. The ability to patent a camera angle could have terrible consequences among YouTube video creators, filmmakers, documentarians, animators ... 

Nasty business. 

#notyogi   #patenttrolls   #yoga   #filmmaking   #youtube  
http://yogainternational.com/article/view/yogaglo-patent-issued

Comments

  1. Sven Tiffe21 December 2013 at 01:53

    Sweet. The patent is even filed for the EU. I thought this kind of nonsense patents are possible in the US only http://www.google.com/patents/EP2609751A2

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  2. David de Kloet21 December 2013 at 02:22

    Surely there must be prior art.

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