Google Customizes Its YouTube Takedown Message In Response To Bogus Innocence Of Muslims Takedown
Apparently, the lawyers at YouTube are so upset about this particular ruling that they've gone a different route with their takedown message.
Via Techdirt:
We just wrote about the 9th Circuit's ridiculously problematic ruling claiming that an actress who appears in 5 seconds of the 13 minute Innocence of Muslims "trailer" has a copyright interest in her performance, allowing the court to order Google to remove all copies of the video (along with a highly questionable gag order).
Soon after the ruling came out, EFF's Parker Higgins suggested the sort of custom "takedown" message that Google might want to put on the video:
The YouTube sad face icon and takedown message has become fairly iconic, so much so that I have random people stop me on th...