<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">As a Makerspace many of us Lend Tools to the organization. Has anyone looked into the liability of loaning equipment?</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Example <br><br>Mo has a Mill he want's to loan to a Hackerspace</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Charles is clumsy and breaks his arm on the Mill.<br><br>Charles talks to Legal Lisa and says wouldn't it be fun to goto court and sue Mo and Hackerspace</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Has anyone looked into the liability of accepting loans vs requiring donated tools so all the legal liability stays on the organization?</div>
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My guess is this is a common discussion among most makerspaces/hackerspaces in the world.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
I would be interested to see if anyone has done the research?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>Robert Davidson </div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dallas Makerspace </font><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dallas.MS</font><br>
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