Case: 12-57302, 05/18/2015, ID: 9540348, DktEntry: 197-1, Page 12 of 42
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GARCIA V. GOOGLE
A divided panel of our court reversed. More than a year
and a half after the film was first uploaded, the panel majority
first issued a secret takedown order, giving Google twentyfour hours to remove all copies of Innocence of Muslims from
YouTube and other Google-controlled platforms. The panel
embargoed disclosure of the order until it issued its opinion.
The panel later amended the order to allow YouTube to post
any version of the film that did not include Garcia’s
performance.
In its later-issued opinion, the panel majority reversed the
district court and granted Garcia’s preliminary injunction.
Garcia v. Google, Inc., 743 F.3d 1258, amended by Garcia v.
Google, Inc., 766 F.3d 929 (9th Cir. 2014). Despite
characterizing Garcia’s copyright claim as “fairly debatable,”
the panel majority nonetheless concluded that Garcia was
likely to prevail on her copyright claim as to her individual
performance in Innocence of Muslims. 766 F.3d at 935. In
contrast to the district court’s factual finding of an implied
license from Garcia to Youssef, the panel opinion held that
the license ran in the opposite direction: “Youssef implicitly
granted [Garcia] a license to perform his screenplay,” and that
Garcia did not grant Youssef an implied license to
incorporate her performance into the film. Id. at 935–38.
Finally, the panel majority held that, because of the death
threats against her, Garcia had established irreparable harm
and the equities and public interest favored an injunction. Id.
at 938–40. The opinion did not address the First Amendment
consequences of the mandatory takedown injunction, beyond
stating that the First Amendment does not protect copyright
infringement.
Judge N.R. Smith dissented. He wrote that Garcia had
not met the high burden required for a mandatory preliminary
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