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Our in house council told us that the sad things about email disclaimers is that while they are useless in the sense that if you send it to someone by accident
by chollida1 14y ago
Our in house council told us that the sad things about email disclaimers is that while they are useless in the sense that if you send it to someone by accident people can't be held accountable to what you put in it, they do have value.
Unfortunately due to the proliferation of these notices, if you don't include one then someone may have more legal leeway to do what they want with the email.
So its a sort of it's useless but if you don't put it in then it can hurt you a little more than if you don't, so let's just include it anyway.
- cookiecaper 14y agoIt at least declares your intent for the message, which one presumably holds the copyright upon (although technically the company might own the copyright, I'm assuming that as the primary agent of the company in regard to that work, the author has some leeway). Unauthorized distribution of the mails would usually be a copyright violation, and excuses to the contrary can be negated by including a huge chunk of text that says "this must be private, seriously". So yes, I see how it can help kind of but not really. It doesn't really change anything, just makes a case tighter should you need to make one, lest the defendant imply he had your authorization to distribute the mails. IANAL.