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Old 08-25-2015, 04:50 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
And I think we can all agree that your average person-on-the-street is not going to understand international copyright law, I think the general rule of thumb is that if its offered to you and looks legit then it's probably legit and a quick read of it's about page doesn't say it's US only.
Exactly. As I pointed out to Harry, the question is what a hypothetical reasonable person would do. The so-called man on the Clapham Omnibus. In Australia you will sometimes here people talk of "the smell test". On archive.org I think you would only have to check if something failed the smell test.
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