Early last year an appellate panel spooked many in Silicon Valley by ordering YouTube to take down clips from a bizarre, inflammatory anti-Islamic film called “Innocence of Muslims.” Google Inc., which owns YouTube, reacted to the decision by calling on Hogan Lovells appellate specialist Neal Katyal, who this week transformed the defeat into a major copyright victory at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general, had never argued a copyright appeal. And the case, Garcia v. Google, was no ordinary copyright dispute. The plaintiff, actress Cindy Lee Garcia, claimed she was duped into appearing in “Innocence of Muslims” by the filmmaker, who led her to believe it was an adventure movie rather than an amateurish cinematic screed against the Prophet Muhammad.
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