QUESTION: Legal liability for incorrect documentation

[DURL <durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET>]

        Our STC chapter had a lawyer do a presentation on this one. I'd
suggest you contact one, because there may be legal liabilities for you,
too!
        I think my original post summarizing his talk is in the archives
for posterity (he spoke in Oct or Nov 97)...sorry, I can't find the info
now...
        Mary

Mary Durlak  Erie Documentation Inc.
East Aurora, New York (near Buffalo)
durl -at- buffnet -dot- net

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Barry House wrote:

> Larry Weber wrote:
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> >What are the legal liabilities for publishing incorrect documentation?
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> Every manual I've ever written, and every one I've read, carries a
> disclaimer that basically says no one is legally responsible for any errors
> that appear in the book. I worked at one company that had a standard
> disclaimer which said, in part, that it could not guarantee that the manual
> bore ANY relationship to the software it supposedly documented.
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