performance, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Garcia's request for the preliminary injunction. As a consequence, the panel's mandatory injunction against Google was unjustified and is dissolved upon publication of this opinion.
Background and Procedural History
In July 2011, Cindy Lee Garcia responded to a casting call for a film titled Desert Warrior, an action-adventure thriller set in ancient Arabia. Garcia was cast in a cameo role, for which she earned $500. She received and reviewed a few pages of script. Acting under a professional director hired to oversee production, Garcia spoke two sentences: "Is George crazy? Our daughter is but a child?" Her role was to deliver those lines and to "seem[] concerned."
Garcia later discovered that writer-director Mark Basseley Youssef (a.k.a. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula or Sam Bacile) had a different film in mind: an anti-Islam polemic renamed Innocence of Muslims. The film, featuring a crude production, depicts the Prophet Mohammed as, among other things, a murderer, pedophile, and homosexual. Film producers dubbed over Garcia's lines and replaced them with a voice asking, "Is your Mohammed a child molester?" Garcia appears on screen for only five seconds.
Almost a year after the casting call, in June 2012, Youssef uploaded a 13-minute-and-51-second trailer of Innocence of Muslims to YouTube, the video-sharing website owned by Google, Inc., which boasts a global audience of more than
