Comments on: Email footers and the law http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/email-law/email-footers-and-the-law/ The web law blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:08:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Julian Taylor http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/email-law/email-footers-and-the-law/#comment-12516 Julian Taylor Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:40:12 +0000 http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/email-law/email-footers-and-the-law/#comment-12516 I have a slighty different email related question. I work for a Blue Chip company and want to know if it is a EU requirement to have email (as a channel of communication) option within the "Contact Us" section of a website. I have a slighty different email related question. I work for a Blue Chip company and want to know if it is a EU requirement to have email (as a channel of communication) option within the “Contact Us” section of a website.

]]> By: Carol Shepherd http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/email-law/email-footers-and-the-law/#comment-11094 Carol Shepherd Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:57:50 +0000 http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/email-law/email-footers-and-the-law/#comment-11094 It will be interesting to see if the law on email disclaimers develops differently in the UK, the EU, Asia and the US. We have a tradition of these in the US going back 20 years; while they are ubiquitous, most people deride them as unenforceable. In the US, they have some limited effect in constituting various forms of legal notice required by law or by contract compliance. (Although they themselves will not, obviously, operate as a contract to impose some kind of restriction or obligation on the recipient.) I wrote an article on the US implications on my blog (http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/07/19/legal-issues-in-email-disclaimers/) and I'll be interested in watching how this develops on the other side of the pond. Carol Shepherd, Attorney Arborlaw PLC It will be interesting to see if the law on email disclaimers develops differently in the UK, the EU, Asia and the US. We have a tradition of these in the US going back 20 years; while they are ubiquitous, most people deride them as unenforceable. In the US, they have some limited effect in constituting various forms of legal notice required by law or by contract compliance. (Although they themselves will not, obviously, operate as a contract to impose some kind of restriction or obligation on the recipient.) I wrote an article on the US implications on my blog (http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/07/19/legal-issues-in-email-disclaimers/) and I’ll be interested in watching how this develops on the other side of the pond.

Carol Shepherd, Attorney
Arborlaw PLC

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