Saturday, December 1, 2012

Actress Loses Bid to Remove Video from YouTube; Judge Won't Buy Her Claim of Copyright Violation

An actress -- who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests against the United States across the Muslim world -- yesterday lost her second legal bid to force the video off YouTube, the Reuters website reports today (December 1, 2012).

Denying a request by actress Cindy Lee Garcia for a court order requiring the popular online video site to remove the crude 13-minute clip -- which is titled "The Innocence of Muslims" -- a federal judge found she was unlikely to prevail on her claims of copyright infringement.

U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald of Santa Clara, California also canceled a December 3 hearing he had previously set for oral arguments over Garcia's request.

Garcia's lawyer, Cris Armenta, said she planned to appeal the decision.

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