software product liability
Software vendor liability is the issue of product liability for software bugs that cause harm, such as security bugs{{cite journal |last1=Kim |first1=Byung Cho |last2=Chen |first2=Pei-Yu |last3=Mukhopadhyay |first3=Tridas |title=The Effect of Liability and Patch Release on Software Security: The Monopoly Case |journal=Production and Operations Management |date=July 2011 |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=603–617 |doi=10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01189.x}} or bugs causing medical errors.{{cite journal |last1=Montesantos |first1=Laura |title=Physician Liability in the Age of Data Reliance and Errors |journal=Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences |date=2022 |volume=31 |pages=179 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/anohl31&div=8&id=&page=}} For the most part, this liability does not exist in the United States.{{cite news |title=Three Questions on Software Liability |url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/three-questions-on-software-liability |access-date=1 May 2024 |work=Lawfare |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Lawrence B. |last2=Bell |first2=Suzanne Y. |title=Software Product Liability: Understanding and Minimizing the Risks |journal=High Technology Law Journal |date=1989–1990 |volume=5 |pages=1 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/berktech5&div=6&id=&page=}}{{cite journal |last1=Scott |first1=Michael D. |title=Tort Liability for Vendors of Insecure Software: Has the Time Finally Come |journal=Maryland Law Review |date=2007–2008 |volume=67 |pages=425 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/mllr67&div=26&id=&page=}} The possibility of liability is excluded for most software in the European Union Product Liability Directive 1985 but is explicitly provided for in the update issued in 2024.{{cite web |title=The New Product Liability Directive: Software as a Product |url=https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insights/2024/03/software-als-produkt |website=www.taylorwessing.com |access-date=1 May 2024 |language=en |date=25 March 2024}}