[socal-piggies] Email Disclaimers (was: Re: Python job opportunity)

[Charles Esterbrook]

You say "It is a legal contract of sorts that you agree to..." but I
don't think that agreement is even possible:

(a) Reading something does not form a contractual agreement.

(b) The disclaimers come at the end which makes no sense. You wouldn't
have a conversation with someone and then set terms for that
conversation after you had it. By the time I have read the last
content paragraph of one of these emails, I still haven't read the
statements about "the information contained in this email".

-Charles

DISCLAIMER: By reading the above email, you have agreed to pay me 10%
of all future revenues derived from employment, contracts, business
ownership, inheritances and gambling on a quarterly basis.


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Inci Ozkaragoz <iozkaragoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think one of the main benefits of the disclaimer is that it allows a
> company with the disclaimer the legal right to sue any suspect
> person/organization that allegedly infringes on its IP that was transmitted
> via email. It is a legal contract of sorts that you agree to with the act of
> reading the email. It also acts as a legal warning to those so tempted to
> misuse the information contained therein. Similar to the copy infringement
> warnings stated at the start of purchased movie videos. It does not prevent
> all thieves from copying, but it does give the law the right to prosecute
> after warning people of the law.
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Charles Esterbrook
>> <contact at charles-esterbrook.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Michael Chean <michael_chean at msn.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is intended only
>>> > for
>>>
>>> Have people using these types of disclaimers enjoyed any benefits?
>>
>> I've never heard of a tangible benefit, but that doesn't mean it doesn't
>> exist.  I've also seen some pretty serious companies that didn't require
>> them.
>> It reminds me of a playful series of radio commercials on a Cincinnati
>> radio station called WEBN:
>>
>> Brute Force Cybernetics: The company that creates a need, and then fills
>> it.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Stromberg
>>
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