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What is in the Public Domain?

Creative Law Center

The public domain freeze is over. More creative work is free for use than ever before. Here's how to tell if a work is in the public domain. The post What is in the Public Domain? appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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Hemp is “legal,” but what does it mean for U.S. trademarks?

Greenspoon Marder LLP

By: Justin McNaughton In the last few years the U.S. Trademark Office has been amassing a collection of rejected and abandoned trademark applications listing Cannabidiol in the description of goods; hundreds of these dead applications are now strewn across the records of the U.S. Trademark Office. Until December 2018, the U.S. Trademark Office had been refusing Cannabis-derived products from registration because the DEA had proclaimed that most CBD products were illegal in interstate commerce.