Does an actress have a copyright interest in her performance in a film? The answer to that question is “yes”, at least according to a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California.

In Garcia versus Google, Inc., et al., 743 F.3^rd 1258 (9^th Cir. 2014), the plaintiff, Cindy Lee Garcia, had sought a preliminary injunction in district court requiring Google to remove from YouTube a film in which she had appeared as an actress, claiming that the posting of the video infringed […]