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A Canadian farmer has been ordered to pay more than C$82,000 ($61,784) in damages over an emoji confusion that a Saskatchewan judge resolved by ruling that a thumbs-up image is enough to accept contractual terms.

OTTAWA–A Canadian farmer has been ordered to pay more than C$82,000 in damages over an emoji confusion that a Saskatchewan judge resolved by ruling that a thumbs-up image is enough to accept contractual terms.

Chris Achter, the owner of a farming company in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, had sent a thumbs-up emoji in response to a photograph of a flax-buying contract sent to him by a grains buyer in 2021.Months later, when the time of the delivery arrived, the buyer – which had been doing business with Achter for several years – did not receive the flax.

That started a dispute that led to “a far-flung search for the equivalent of the Rosetta Stone in cases from Israel, New York State and some tribunals in Canada” to unearth what a thumbs-up emoji means, according to the June court ruling that surfaced in local media this week.

 

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