Posted on 05/18/2015 5:52:30 PM PDT by mandaladon
An appeals court today reversed a lower court’s decision compelling YouTube to remove the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, saying that such an act was a violation of the First Amendment.
The film, a 13-minute “trailer” created by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2012, sparked outrage among the Muslim community for its depiction of the prophet Muhammad as a pedophile and a murderer, and for a time was thought to be the cause of the attacks against the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
The initial lawsuit had been filed by Cindy Lee Garcia, one of the actresses in the film, who said that she had no idea that her film was about Islam. (Her lines in the film had been dubbed over and replaced with: “Is your Mohammed a child molester?”). Garcia claimed that as a result of the film, she received death threats and demanded that YouTube remove the film; a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals initially sided with her claim. A year later, the entire eleven judge panel revisited the decision and reversed it.
In the opinion, written by Judge M. Margaret McKeown, they based their ruling on Garcia’s specific claim — that she held a copyright to her five seconds of performance, and that YouTube was violating that copyright by hosting the movie without her permission. The :
As Garcia characterizes it, “the main issue in this case involves the vicious frenzy against Ms. Garcia that the Film caused among certain radical elements of the Muslim community.” We are sympathetic to her plight. Nonetheless, the claim against Google is grounded in copyright law, not privacy, emotional distress, or tort law, and Garcia seeks to impose speech restrictions under copyright laws meant to foster rather than repress free expression.
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Good.
“Is your Mohammed a child molester?”
And the answer is......
Simpler to just re-post it on vimeo, or rutube.
Uh, no thinking person believed that this lame video caused squat, ‘cept making H! look as ridiculous as ever.
Wow, somebody actually believes this?
“depiction of the prophet Muhammad as a pedophile”
Why are ragheads throwing a hissy fit? Ass clown here historically raped and “married” a 9 year old girl. Sub human animals can only come up with this immorality.
Sanity prevails for once.
Complete and utter lie. It was claimed by Obama, Hillary and Democrats. The Ninth Circus is a political hack circuit. This took a year to resolve?
Just imagine how outraged they'll be when they read the koran and hadith!
It is
The Will of Allah
Their “out” for this claim would be that it was thought by *some*, not necessarily Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice, who knew damn well that it was a terrorist attack as it was happening in real time. But sure, SOME people believed the video was the cause of the attack, because they believed the lie.
Besides mohamhead having been a pedophile and a murderer, throw in that he was a thief just for good measure.
Shoddy journalism. There was no American Embassy in Benghazi, only a Consulate and the "CIA Annex" that was the base of a large gunrunning operation. The embassy was in Libya's capital city of Tripoli.
Isn’t that guy still in jail for some lame reason?
When the flak is the thickest, that’s how you know you’re over the target. Seems some Muslims take offense at this because they know it is true.
No it didn't. Only 100 people or less had viewed it as of the day after the Benghazi attack.
The protests and attack in Cairo (or anywhere in the world) weren't about that stupid 'video' either.
Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
Interviews on the streets of Cairo. 'Video' had nothing to do with protests and attack.
"Blame it on the Video" was a Fraud for the Cairo Rioting, Too
Да!
Or just post it again on YouTube.
Given that Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice were promoting the lie, that’s not an out.
I thought that was a misprint....it’s Soviet YouTube, where video watches YOU!
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