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Google Ordered To Remove Anti-Islamic Film From YouTube
cold fjord writes "The Verge reports, 'Google and YouTube must scrub all copies of Innocence of Muslims, a low-budget anti-Islam film that drew international protest in 2012, at the behest of an actress who says she received death threats after being duped into a role. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a temporary takedown order on behalf of Cindy Lee Garcia, who filed a copyright claim against Google in an attempt to purge the video from the web. While actors usually give up the right to assert copyright protection when they agree to appear in a film, Garcia says that not only was she never an employee in any meaningful sense, the finished film bore virtually no relation to the one she agreed to appear in. In a majority opinion, Judge Alex Kozinski said she was likely in the right.' — Techdirt has extensive commentary on the ruling that's worth reading. It seems likely there will be an appeal, with the distinct possibility that Google and the MPAA will be on the same side."
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However, this isn't only about freedom of speech - it's about defamation and slanders. If it falsely makes it looks like the actors supported this film in a way they did not
OMG, I saw this movie called Salt, and it CLEARLY shows that Angelina Jolie is a Russian Mole - I had no idea she supported embedded terrorists.
Oh wait, she was an ACTRESS PORTRAYING A ROLE?
And even an IDIOT understands that actresses do not at all necessarily endorse what the characters they play are doing, or in fact even the main message of the movie because after an actress is doing a JOB?
Oh, my bad! I would have to be the dumbest person on the planet to claim that a movie in any way shed a bad light on an actress in it beyond the horror that may be their acting skills.
Where was the court injunction removing Gigli from the universe? If that didn't go this can certainly stay. Or else we start whacking a LOT of movies that any person on the planet finds objectionable.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The important point is that the law says you are not allowed to see it on YouTube. Its a right that you had yesterday that you do not have today. Part of the massive, slow and irreversible erosion of our rights.
There's no right to view a video on the internet.
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Why isn't she using the law to have these fanatics hauled in front of a judge for the death threats they sent her?
Could it be related to the fact that there is a "Hussein" in the POTUS's name ?
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