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In this segment of a panel discussion held at a 2008 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Forum focusing on entertainment litigation, the panelist Robert Schwartz runs through some recent developments in copyright infringement litigation, for example MGM v. Grokster, and Warner Bros. v. Napster and how federal courts are construing ownership and consumer rights in copyright infringement matters. He explains how these cases and others distinguish between “active” and “passive” inducement to infringe on copyrights, as well as what “primary” and “secondary” infringement are, and raises some questions which remain unsettled as to what constitutes copyright infringement in the internet age.