Actress in anti-Islam film changes lawsuit

An actress suing the producer of an anti-Islam movie that has spawned violent protests across the Muslim world plans to drop her lawsuit and file a new case in federal court over copyright claims, her lawyer said.

Last week, Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in Innocence of Muslims, filed a lawsuit in a state court in Los Angeles against Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the California man thought to be behind the movie.

She claimed she was duped into playing a role and her life had been put at risk as a result. Her case also named YouTube and its parent company, Google, as defendants for their role in distributing the short, crudely made film on the internet. A California state court judge last Thursday rejected her motion for an order for YouTube to pull the film off its site.