Fair Use Fair use provides a statutory defense in a copyright action. What fair use proposes is that it is important to protect the authors of copyrighted material’s work; however, there are certain activities that one can perform that should be excused from infringement. These activities include literary and social criticism, educational activities, and First...Read More

Courts have moved swiftly to address copyright infringement when given the opportunity. Two important cases that involve direct copyright infringement in the on-line world are Playboy v. Frena and Sega v. MAPHIA. In Playboy v. Frena, Playboy, sued George Frena, a computer bulletin board service operator, for copyright infringement of pictures that were scanned into...Read More

Copyright infringement occurs when someone exercises control over the exclusive rights of the owner without the owner’s authorization. The exclusive rights of the author include the right of the author to: (1) reproduce their work either privately or publicly, (2) prepare derivative works either privately or publicly. A derivative work is “any work that is...Read More

Boynton Beach city officials announced recently that the two city-owned cemeteries, Boynton Beach Memorial Park and Sara Sims Memorial Gardens, are near full capacity. As reported by the Sun Sentinel, city officials expect that the approximate 160 burial plots still available at Boynton Beach Memorial Park will be sold within the next year. The remaining...Read More

WOULD “A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME SMELL AS SWEET” IN CYBERSPACE? If one lesson to be learned from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the famous words, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” is that a thing remains what it is regardless of what it is called or where it appears,...Read More

Almost weekly, if not daily, we read an account in the local newspapers or hear a story on the TV news that there was a car accident and someone died or someone was critically hurt or perhaps multiple people were seriously injured. Last month on I-95 all of these tragic facts transpired in one accident...Read More