At a time when YouTube claims to have more than a billion visitors a month, any teenager with a digital camera can create a video with instant global exposure. Does copyright law give an actor (or a bystander) who appears on camera any right to block distribution of a film?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s May 18 en banc opinion in Garcia v. Google, which involved a notorious film that incited violence in the Middle East, indicates that copyright law will be of little use.
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