( CNN ) -- Google must remove the inflammatory film `` The Innocence of Muslims '' from YouTube.com , a federal appeals court ordered Wednesday . The film had been connected to violent demonstrations in several countries . The 9th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court 's earlier denial of an injunction that would require taking the film down . Wednesday 's order resulted from a lawsuit filed by Cindy Lee Garcia , one of the actresses in the film , against YouTube , its parent company Google , and the producer of the film , Nakoula Basseley Nakoula , among others . `` Garcia was duped into providing an artistic performance that was used in a way she never could have foreseen . Her unwitting and unwilling inclusion in 'Innocence of Muslims ' led to serious threats against her life , '' 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in his opinion . Kozinski wrote that Garcia had been cast in a minor role in a film whose working title was `` Desert Warrior , '' and received about $ 500 for three and a half days of filming . But `` Desert Warrior '' never materialized ; instead , the scene she acted in was used in `` Innocence of Muslims . '' `` Garcia first saw 'Innocence of Muslims ' after it was uploaded to YouTube and she discovered that her brief performance had been partially dubbed over so that she appeared to be asking , 'Is your Mohammed a child molester ? ' `` Kozinski wrote . Garcia 's lawsuit also alleged that the copyright of her performance had been infringed . Google argued `` that Garcia did n't make a protectable contribution to the film '' since Nakoula -- whose aliases include Mark Basseley Youssef , a name cited in the lawsuit -- wrote the dialogue that Garcia spoke , managed the production and dubbed over part of the scene , Kozinski wrote . Google sent the following statement to CNN Wednesday : `` Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an actress in the Innocence of Muslims trailer may have a copyright claim over her five-second appearance in the video . As a result the court ordered Google to remove the video from our services . We strongly disagree with this ruling and will fight it . '' The film portrays the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer , buffoon , ruthless killer and child molester . Islam categorically forbids any depictions of Mohammed , and blasphemy is an incendiary taboo in the Muslim world . The movie , backed by hardcore anti-Islam groups in the United States , is a low-budget project that was ignored in the United States when trailers were posted on YouTube in July 2012 . But after Egyptian television aired certain segments , violent protests erupted in several Middle Eastern and Northern African nations , and in Muslim populations elsewhere in the world . The anger faded , however , particularly after filmmaker Nakoula 's arrest on September 27 , 2012 . Although the film was not the direct reason for his incarceration , authorities found that his actions producing `` The Innocence of Muslims '' violated the terms of his probation for a 2010 bank fraud conviction . He was released from prison in May 2013 . Garcia had begun receiving death threats after an Egyptian cleric called for everyone involved with the film to be killed , Kozinski wrote . `` While answering a casting call for a low-budget amateur film does n't often lead to stardom , it also rarely turns an aspiring actress into the subject of a fatwa , '' Kozinski wrote . CNN 's Stella Chan , Stan Wilson , Carey Bodenheimer and Greg Botelho contributed to this report .
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