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Originally Posted by Bigdaddy
Suppose you sign a document electronically - with a stylus or your finger.
What happens to the real autograph you just signed???
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Now that is really interesting. Consider an iPad Pro, running some Notes app, and an Apple Pencil. You sign your name with the pencil on the screen. One could argue, I suppose, that the signature that appears as you sign your name is a real autograph. But now you save the document. And duplicate it. There are now two identical files. But only the original is the real autograph. The files differ only in their time stamps--the earlier file is the original. But given one of those electronic files, one cannot ever tell whether it is the original, or the two-hundredth copy.
I'll stick to collecting fountain pen autographic material.