Legal Opinion
Noelia Monge v. Maya Magazines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2012No. 10-56710, 11-55483PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge McKEOWN; Dissent by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR.
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal reads like a telenovela, a Spanish soap opera. It pits music celebrities, who make money by promoting themselves, against a gossip magazine, that makes money by publishing celebrity photographs, with a paparazzo, who apparently stole the disputed pictures, stuck in the middle. Noelia Lorenzo Monge and Jorge Reynoso (“the couple”), Latin American celebrities, claim that Maya Magazines, Inc. and Maya Publishing Group, LLC (collectively “Maya” or “the magazine”) infringed their copyrights by…
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