Correction: Information in this story about a news licensing group being launched later this year by The Associated Press and other news organizations should have been attributed to an AP press release, not to a source who asked to remain anonymous. We regret the error.
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.
