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The inducement rule is a test a United States court can use to determine whether liability for copyright infringement committed by third parties could be assigned to the distributor of the device used to commit infringement.[edit] Summary of the ruleOriginating from patent law, the inducement rule test was articulated in Justice Souter’s majority opinion in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.[1], a significant 2005 copyright and peer-to-peer file-sharing Supreme Court case. |
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