• The National Music Publishers' Association has joined a class action lawsuit against Google and its YouTube division. The suit, originally brought in May by English soccer's The Football Association Premier League Ltd, contends YouTube facilitates copyright infringement of music videos and live footage. (Wall Street Journal)

• It's the year of the widget boom: Pandora has launched a Facebook widget. Users can log in with an existing Pandora account and the widget will contain previous user information like favorite artists and radio stations. (Listening Post)

• Microsoft's DRM lives on: Nokia's S60 mobile operating system will use the PlayReady DRM that will allow users to share music, videos and games. PlayReady was unveiled in February. It requires users to register different devices under a domain, and PlayReady content can be played under each user's domain. (Billboard.biz)

• A profile on Anywhere.FM, an online music service that does the usual online music storage locker and music discovery stuff. It has 3,700 registered users in just five days and is part of the Y Combinator start-up incubator program. (John Cook's Venture Blog)

• A U.S. judge overturned a $1.75 billion ruling against Microsoft that dealt with the company's use of a disputed MP3 technology. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the creator of the MP3 format and now owned by Lucent, had argued that Microsoft infringed on two of its patents. (The Age)

• Music attorney Chris Castle asks, Why does the EFF hate artists so much? "The issue is not whether society needs copyright to have a creative community, I would suggest that society needs copyright to protect the creative community from von Lohman of the EFF’s fellow travelers at the National Association of Broadcasters and the Consumer Electronics Association who would free ride on our backs." (Music Technology Policy)

• Commodore (remember that brand?) has released an digital media player. The Gravel C200 won't win any design awards, that's for sure. (Engadget)