WASHINGTON–A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. Intellectual property protection “can’t function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can’t protect copyright,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The session centered on the landmark Supreme …

Warner Music Group and MTV Networks will work together to create short music videos from Warner’s existing collection and distribute them on cell phones and other mobile devices. Under the license agreement, announced Monday, MTV has access to Warner’s global catalog to create and distribute shortened versions of videos. The selection will range from the record label’s stable of emerging …

The music and movie industries are giving people who have swapped songs and other copyrighted material over the Internet a new way to repent for their illicit ways. A free program released Thursday, called Digital File Check, will uninstall or disable file-sharing programs on people’s computers. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a London-based affiliate of the Recording …