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> the US-Australia free trade agreement ensures US copyright law applies to and overrides Australian copyright law).

Can you elaborate on this? I understood treaties to have no legal force in Australia until domestic laws were passed to give them force. I know there are exceptions to this rule (like Teoh) but AFAIK they don't involve overriding domestic law



They don't. The commenter made a huge generalization.




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