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Unfortunately for them Cory Doctorow’s email signature is: > READ CAREFULLY. By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from a
by imron 3y ago
Unfortunately for them Cory Doctorow’s email signature is:
> READ CAREFULLY. By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.
So if such signatures are enforceable then his signature is too, which nullifies the whole thing.
- okwhateverdude 3y agoThis signature is hilarious. It is the moral equivalent of "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
- dspillett 3y agoI may have to tweak my disclaimer in that direction too. Anywhere I deliberately list my contact details I always try to include text the effect that “Please note that any communication sent to these addresses/numbers will be accepted as a gift which I own and condo with anything I please, including but not limited to publicly publishing it and ridiculing you for my amusement should I feel the need or the want. If you are uncomfortable with this, feel free to refrain from contacting me. If you wish to negotiate some form of non-disclosure agreement, drop me a message stating just that, and I will ask my legal adviser to send you the relevant schedule of charges for the time that will require. Simply assuming such an agreement is in place, or unilaterally declaring one, in an email footer or elsewhere, is not sufficient.”.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> By reading this email, you agree I'd assume that's unenforceable. You agree something by agreeing it, not just by reading the text of the agreement. How can you agree something you haven't yet finished reading?
- sdenton4 3y agoSee also: Every T&C page ever published.
- imron 3y ago100% agree - and that’s the whole point. Anyone arguing that it is invalid and unenforceable is arguing to invalidate their own, equally unenforceable ‘private and confidential’ note at the bottom of their original emails. Heads I win, tails you lose.