A federal appeals court changed course Monday and said copyright law does not require Google to take down the inflammatory YouTube video, "The Innocence of Muslims."
A Los Angeles actress had demanded the video's removal after claiming she was fired from her job and received death threats over her brief stint in the video. Cindy Garcia said she thought she would be in an adventure show but was tricked into performing in a "hateful anti-Islamic production" that sparked worldwide protests.
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the woman last year in a 2-1 vote and ordered Google to remove the video. The court ruled that she controlled the copyright of her five-second stint, in which her dubbed voice asks: "Is your Muhammad a child molester?"
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