Google has been ordered by a U.S. federal appeals court to remove an anti-Islamic film its YouTube website that has caused protests in the Middle East, according to Reuters.

"By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Google's assertion that the removal of the film "Innocence of Muslims" amounted to a prior restraint of speech that violated the U.S. Constitution," said the report by Reuters.

The plaintiff, Cindy Lee Garcia, has protested the film after being informed that it used a clip she had filmed for a separate movie.

The clip was partially dubbed and makes it appear like she was asking "Is your Mohammed a child molester?"

A lower court supposedly refused Garcia's appeal that Google take down the film from YouTube, according to Reuters.

The 9th Circuit said Garcia would most likely win her copyright claim, and having already faced "serious threats against her life" faced irreparable harm absent an injunction.

YouTube was founded in 2005 by three former PayPal workers, and purchased by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion.

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