On 01/29/2014 10:41 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
In other words, if I sign a paper contract, scan it,
email it to someone,
and they print it, it has been faxed. But if I start with a PDF file, sign
it in a graphics program, and email that, it has not been faxed because it
did not originate as a physical document. If the PDF was originally a scan
of a paper document, but I fill it in digitally, then email it, that's not
a fax because the electronic document is not an accurate, unaltered
representation of a physical document.
[I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a suitably large grain of salt.]
I believe that the case varies from state-to-state. I can remember
voting on a legislature-sponsored measure that legitimized "electronic
signatures" in my own state, for example.
--Chuck