It had to happen: On Tuesday, Macrovision, a maker of digital copyright protection technology and Websense, a maker of employee Internet management software, announced a strategic partnership to develop tools for locating pirated files on corporate and government networks, according to a statement released by the two companies. The partnership …

Rifat Qureshi, a former performing artist, is a business analyst for a UK-based software company that provides services for the utilities and telecom industries. He has fascinating insight into the global music industry: If we look laterally at another industry, the energy markets, particularly here in the UK, we see …

With just over two weeks left to make its last payment, the Bill Monroe Foundation still owes $965,000 for the bluegrass star’s famed mandolin: The Rosine-based organization has until Oct. 26 to make a payment of $965,000 for Monroe’s 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin, which is stored in a Hendersonville, Tenn., …

Who would have thought Rikki Rockett would be out front, leading the zeitgeist? Rikki just decorates them, but in Japan the toilets do everything but make your lunch: Japan’s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric …

The American Music Center to offer free contemporary classical music on the web: the American Music Center, an organization to aid in the distribution of music and serve as an information clearinghouse. When the center opened an office on West 42nd Street later that year, it quickly became a command …

The broadband future is here in South Korea, with over 50% household penetration. Digital utopia? Not exactly: Broadband’s killer application — the one activity that dwarfs all others — is online gaming, which 80 percent of South Koreans under 25 play, according to one recent study. Critics say the burgeoning …

FCC to decide standards for CD-quality sound from the radio: The Federal Communications Commission is to decide Thursday whether to allow radio stations to broadcast digital signals and how they should do it. Digital radio’s rollout could begin in a few months in some major cities, and consumers would start …

As discussed here, German media conglomerate Bertelsmann sold millions of anti-Semitic books during the Nazi era and used Jewish slave laborers according to its own commission. The Independent has more on the matter: In June 1998, Bertelsmann triumphantly took over the US publisher Random House, and its chairman at the …

Three old farts owned by Sony? Well, yes, but they also just sued MP3.com: Rock stars Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and James Taylor filed a lawsuit against Vivendi Universal’s MP3.com music Web site for allegedly distributing their songs without authorization, sources familiar with the suit said on Tuesday. A spokesman …

PW Daily reports that Borders is opening a new superstore near Ground Zero: Borders Books and Music has signed a lease to open a new store in the American Surety Building at 100 Broadway in lower Manhattan, replacing the flagship store that was destroyed last year in the collapse of …