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Righthaven LLC, the Las Vegas–based copyright-holding company that has sued hundreds of bloggers and Web sites for infringement over the past year, suffered its biggest setback yet last week, when a federal district court judge in Nevada ruled that an Oregon nonprofit that republished an entire article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal—one of Righthaven’s copyright-enforcement partners—was protected by fair use.

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