Case Blurb: Napster C/R Litigation, affirmative nature of duty to preserve

The obligation to retain discoverable materials is an affirmative one; it requires that the agency or corp. officers or having notice of discovery obligations communicate those obligations to employees in possession of discoverable materials. In re Napster, Inc. Copyright Litigation, 2006 WL 3050864 (N. D. Cal. 2006) (quoting National Ass’n of Radiation Survivors, 115 F.R.D. at 557-58).