Ars Technica: Copyright Cop Wedding Crashers Fined By Spanish Court:

The next time you have a wedding, make sure your videographer isn’t a secret spy for the RIAA or similar copyright group. This real-life scenario happened to a couple in Spain thanks to the efforts of the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE), a rights group for musicians and artists. But although the group managed to bust the reception venue for copyright violations, SGAE itself has been fined for violating the privacy of the newlyweds.

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Go to Tweetgrid.
Select the size grid corresponding to the number of terms you want to track (the maximum is nine).
Enter the brand name (or any other term you want to monitor on Twitter) into the search window, hit search. You will note in the window above that I added REPLICA to a brand name.
Enjoy! Repeat!
And while we’re on the subject of Twitter, there is an article beng bandied about concerning ‘twitter-squatting’ wherein folk are using famous brand names as twitter usernames. The article contains a list of which of the 100 most valuable brand names are not yet registered as twitter names. So I am not linking to it for that reason.
Having said that, it wouldn’t kill you to go to Twitter.com and obtain your valuable brand names as twitter names. It’s free.

IPKat: “Are Performers A Special Case?“:

While almost every serious commentator in the field of contemporary copyright law takes the view that no case has been established for the extension of copyright term in respect of sound recordings, the case for the extension of the protection term enjoyed by performers themselves has at least one doughty advocate.

With comments by Prof Patry and Slothrop (possibly Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow).