Information Product Liability Study

The liability of information product is the civil liability undertaken by the producers and distributors, due to the personal and property damages of consumers caused by the quality defects in the products being processed, produced massively and launched into circulation for sale. In recent years, along with the rapid development in technologies, the intangible information products such as intelligence and information is becoming a new-styled transaction object in market. This sort of "products in a sense" has the general property of the product, and has the combined particularity of "tangibility" and "intangibility". Therefore, in relation to generic product, the damages caused by information products are more dangerous and aggressive. Because of this, the responsibility of information product is becoming the most original subject investigated in the international law of product liability.This article takes information, information product and information product liability as be characterized by starting point, and integrates the research approaches of jurisprudence and informatics, combines related juridical practice, especially reviews the and characteristic of information product liability, inquire the possible obstacles encountered and the overcome of such, the liability principle of information product liability, exemption causes, indemnity etc., surveyed the law of product liability along with other related laws in the innovation and development in the information product liabilities.Besides the introduction and epilogue, this article is divided into seven chapters. We mainly discussed the contents hereinafter:Chapter 1: the general considerations of information product. This chapter coordinated the concept, characteristic and scope of information and information product, is the direct incision point of the research on information product liability. Specifically, information is the uncertainty measurement of objects; Information product is the product of labour by information personnel and takes circulation and sales as the purpose. It is not information product without process of information organization and information personnel,then put into circulation. Information service is a type of specific information product, usually disappears...