[78-L] Motown on 78 and weird Filipino labels

[agp]

The other night my wife and I walked a documentary film called 
Standing in teh Shadows of Motwon - the Story of the Funk Brothers. 
The Funk Brothers were the studio musicians on the vast majority of 
Motown hits of the 60s. Of course this extended back to the late 50s 
for Barry Gordy's earliest releases. This got me thinking about 2 
things .. Motown on 78 and those odd labels in the Philippines.

Of course Motwon had no 78s in the USA. Motown stuff did come out on 
78 elsewhere though. And example is a 78 of Please Mister Postman by 
the Marvellettes on Grand in the Philippines. Somewhere around here I 
have an image of Tamla label 78 (via Dyna) also from the the 
Philippines. I have every reason to believe that Motown 78s (not with 
that label) may have come out in India and South America.

This leads to a quick thought about the weird labels for 78s in the 
Philippines. For example: the local versions of Sun, Liberty, and 
Monument. Sun had Ricky Nelson releases from Imperial, Liberty had 
releases by the Everly Brothers, and Monument by Bobby Vee and the 
Ventures--- each copying the label trademarks as used in the USA. 
Other odd labels include Lancer with Elvis releases, Era with all the 
Cameo/ Parkway stuff, etc.

So I wonder -- 2 questions:

Anyone know of any Motown related 78s?

How did companies in the Philippines come to appropriating the names 
of 3 well know US record companies? Is/ was the biz there as legally 
slippery as that throughout southeast asia?

T