Thank you all! So, a bare email is also legally binding, but it can be hard to proove who sent it. Same for hellosign.com, it can be hard to proove who really signed a document there, and it was that fact that confused me, I made "legally binding" and "proove who signed" the same thing.
/Morten On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David P Á wrote: > The directive refers to two types of signatures on article 2: electronic > signatures are those like me writing my name on the foot of this email, > advanced electronic signatures are the ones that require certificates and > so on. By art 5.1, advanced electronic signatures are equivalent to > hand-written ones, by art 5.2, though, unqualified electronic signatures > should not be denied legal validity on the mere grounds that they are > electronic. So without advising to particulars, especially given the > possible issues with transposition of the directive into national law, an > electronic signature of that sort is binding, though of course it is > possible to question whether it really was issued by the signatory and so > on. > > --David. > >
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