Questions of liability in the provision of information services: Paper presented at the Eusidic Annual Conference 1989

Today the total number of databanks is still increasing and online information providers are facing quasi‐unlimited opportunities to expand their services both on a national and an international level. Unfortunately for databank producers this also means increasing the risk of liability as the number of potential users and kind of uses of the information is growing. This risk of liability is not a fiction. The user expects the information he receives to be reliable and accurate. In case of unreliability or inaccuracy, he will blame the person who provided him with the information.