摘要
关于软件存在缺陷导致损害,其提供者是否应当承担类似于有体物产品责任的严格责任,中国现行法律并无明确规定。指出无形并不构成确立产品责任的障碍,软件应当被视为产品,但要考虑言论自由的约束;对规模化生产和销售的安全关键软件适用产品责任;应当把未将软件投入流通的、软件投入流通时缺陷尚不存在的及投入流通时科学技术水平尚不能发现软件缺陷存在的3种情形作为生产者的免责事由。
When injury occurs because of the defective software, shall the provider of it bear the same strict liability as that arising out of or pertaining to corporeal products？ China is now lacking in the special stipulation of law. The paper pointed out that subject to the liberty of speech, software shall be treated as a product and be undertaken strict liability regardless of its intangible feature. The scale production and marketing of safetycritical software justify imposition of product liability. A producer shall not be liable for compensation if he can prove the existence of any of the following circumstances： the software has not been put in circulation; the defect causing the damage does not exist at the time the software is put in circulation; the science and technology at the time the software is put in circulation is incapable of detecting the defect.
出处
《大连海事大学学报（社会科学版）》
2009年第1期15-18,共4页
Journal of Dalian Maritime University(Social Science Edition)
关键词
产品
软件
严格责任
免责事由
product
software
strict liability
reason of contradiction
