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Are digital contract signatures legal?
So first things first - are electronic signatures legally binding? Simple answer is yes - since 2000. But don’t take our word for it - here what Gartner has to say…
Gartner just published one of the most thoughtful research notes on e-signatures (11/2007) in some time. The point as the abstract notes is that laws for e-signatures are already on the books, and the key to thinking about e-signatures is not legality (they are legal under the U.S. E-Sign Act and similar laws in most other Western countries) or the “mechanism used to create a signature”, but rather the benefits of signature automation as part of the overall business process.
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