Clapham omnibus

Clapham omnibus

Posted Apr 17, 2008 17:06 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Turnitin and fair use by lysse
Parent article: Turnitin and fair use

For us non-Brits, the man on the Clapham omnibus is the legal standard of your average Joe—``the man in the street'' in the U.S. I believe he's legally called ``the reasonable man'' in our courts.

(beware of the no lawyers who live at my house)

Jon, can you arrange to have ``IANAL'' prefixed to all comments for this story.¹ :-)

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¹(Of course, if you are a lawyer, you may delete it.)

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