Publishers join YouTube chorus

August 07, 2007 Music publishers are among those who joined a class-action lawsuit Monday that accuses the popular online video site YouTube and its parent company Google of copyright infringement. The National Music Publishers Assn. and a handful of other groups joined a class-action suit filed May 4 in New York by the Premier League, England's top soccer division, and the Bourne Co., an independent music publisher. Also joining the lawsuit were investigative journalist Robert Tur; the U.K.'s Rugby Football League; the Finnish Football League Assn.; X-Ray Dog Music, composers and producers of high-end music for popular movie and TV trailers; Knockout Entertainment (SecondsOut.com) and Seminole Warriors Boxing, which have separately promoted boxing matches; and Daniel Quinn, author of "Ishmael."

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