YouTube ordered to pull anti-Muslim film

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A federal appeals court ordered an anti-Islamic film removed from YouTube on Wednesday and reinstated a copyright suit by an actress whose voice was dubbed over with an insult against the prophet Muhammad, leading to death threats against the actress and violence in the Middle East.

Although Cindy Garcia had only a brief role in the film, she has a right to control the use of her performance and to protect herself from fraud and physical harm, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a 2-1 ruling. The dissenting judge said that Garcia's minimal performance was not entitled to copyright protection, and that the court's takedown order may violate freedom of speech.

Garcia, of Los Angeles, was hired in 2011 for a minor part in a film called "Desert Warrior" and was paid $500. Instead, her scene appeared in "Innocence of Muslims," a 14-minute video shown on YouTube in 2012 by the same filmmaker, Mark Basseley Youssef. Her performance was partially dubbed over to include the line, "Is your Muhammad a child molester?"

... "The film differs so radically from anything Garcia could have imagined when she was cast that it can't possibly be authorized by any implied license she granted Youssef," said Chief Judge Alex Kozinski in the majority opinion.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/YouTube-ordered-to-pull-anti-Muslim-film-5270456.php

[dipsydoodle]

1. That's the one which caused the problems in Egypt

and also led to lame claims it caused the problem in Benghazi.

[Dr. Strange]

2. Wasn't that decided by the Borat film cases?

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-11-10-borat-lawsuit_x.htm

http://www.slashfilm.com/one-more-borat-lawsuit-bites-the-dust/

[dipsydoodle]

3. There may in fact be a difference

between a paid actress and unpaid extras.

[Xyzse]

10. That's true

Many of the actors/actresses that were in the "Innocence of" did not know what they were filming.

I would have to side with them, especially if they were not paid.

[gopiscrap]

4. Good

[Pterodactyl]

5. Oh, good. Now all that terrorism and hatred of the US will end.

[alp227]

6. Good. Sam B whatever the director's name is,

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Lied to the actress. Violated contract with her. Right call by the court, regardless how much this video influenced Benghazi. Free Republic must be sending a COVER UP by the court here...cognitive dissonance after insisting this video had nothing to do with the 9/11/12 events.

I wonder if the vocalists who sang on the first Milli Vanilli album could have gotten the album banned on similar grounds?

[DeSwiss]

7. K&R

''The dissenting judge said that Garcia's minimal performance was not entitled to copyright protection, and that the court's takedown order may violate freedom of speech.''

- A ''minimal performance'' is when someone pulls something like this minority dissenting opinion from their ass......

[happyslug]

8. Here is the actual Court Opinion.

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/02/26/12-57302%20web%20revised.pdf

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Kick (nt)

[Recursion]

11. I've never seen persuasive evidence the movie actually exists

The Hollywood Reporter covered it pretty well two years ago:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/innocence-of-muslims-movie-youtube-trailer-371465

Innocence of Muslims is perhaps the most famous movie in the world, but no one seems to have seen it. Maybe that's because it doesn't exist beyond the muddled 14-minute "trailer" on YouTube that has prompted anti-American violence in the Middle East.

The film's writer, Sam Bacile, aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, initially said he created a full-length movie that screened at the Vine Theatre in Hollywood under the title The Innocence of Bin Laden. But a theater employee told the Los Angeles Times no one attended the screening, nor did the employee watch the movie.

And a YouTube video called "Innocence of Muslims 74 Min" is merely the same 14 minutes looped over and over. One of the actors, Cindy Lee Garcia, tells THR that Nakoula boasted he was making a two-hour action epic, though Garcia has seen nothing beyond the infamous 14 minutes. "The movie doesn't exist," says Marium Mohiuddin of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which advises Hollywood producers on how to portray Muslims accurately. "We've been looking hard for a full movie, and we haven't found anything."

But whether it's real doesn't seem to matter to the rioting radicals because not only are they convinced there is such a movie, "there's a complete misconception that this is a major Hollywood project and not a poorly thrown-together video," adds Mohiuddin.

That is, there's certainly a trailer on Youtube, but it's not actually a trailer for a movie that was ever produced, and it doesn't seem like the cast and crew were shooting a movie about Islam.