2012) is a copyright lawsuit where the court determined if the publication of previously unpublished photographs in a celebrity gossip magazine constitutes fair use.

Latin American celebrities singer Noelia Lorenzo and music producer Jorge Reynoso claimed that Maya Publishing Group, LLC and Maya Magazines, Inc. infringed their copyrights by publishing previously unpublished photos of their secret wedding in their celebrity gossip magazine "TVNotas".

[2] On January 3, 2007, Pop singer and model Noelia Lorenzo Monge and her manager, Jorge Reynoso, a music producer married in secret at the "Little White Wedding Chapel" in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Maya published six of the photos on a two-page spread in Issue 633 of the magazine TVNotas with the headline "The Secret Wedding of Noelia and Jorge Reynoso in Las Vegas.".

The pictures at issue are newsworthy, but the magazine went beyond simply reporting uncopyrightable information and sought to exploit the headline value of its infringement.

The district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of Maya on the basis of fair use, therefore its decision is reversed and reprimanded.

He argues that the ruling allows public figures to hide behind the cloak of copyright to prevent the news media from exposing their fallacies.

Smith disagreed with the ruling that the work was not transformative, since the photos were recontextualized for a different purpose adding something new, as evidence to prove a "controversial," "salacious," or controverted fact.