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Controversy has followed Innocence of Muslims ever since the 14-minute video was uploaded to YouTube and dubbed into Arabic. After provoking violent and sometimes deadly protests around the world, the film has set off a legal firestorm at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In February, the Ninth Circuit issued its public opinion ordering Google to take down the film clip from YouTube, granting the preliminary injunction requested by an actress who argued that its continued broadcast infringed her performance copyright and jeopardized her safety. Garcia v. Google Inc., 12-57302.
The combination of Google's uncompromising litigation position on behalf of its subsidiary and Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's outside-the-box handling of the case, which included a secret takedown order that Google was forbidden from making public for a week, has proven highly combustible in technology, media, motion picture and academic circles ' and apparently even the court itself.
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