The driver of a Toyota Echo was arrested last week and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with serious injuries. The victim, a 53 year old man driving a moped in the eastbound lane of Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach, was left in critical condition at the side of the road. According to...Read More

The Renaissance Commons, located on Gateway Boulevard and Congress Avenue in downtown Boynton Beach, considered to be a high profile retail shopping center, will soon be home to Pizza Rox, a brand new casual artesian pizza restaurant. As reported by The Real Deal South Florida Real Estate News, Pizza Rox just entered a 10-year lease...Read More

Last month a New Jersey based company, M&M Realty Partners, submitted paperwork to the Palm Beach County Building Department for permission to develop a large shopping center in west Boynton Beach. The proposed shopping center, if approved by the County, is to be built on the northeast corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Hagen Ranch...Read More

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