Allison Demas is an attorney-at-law specialising in copyright and entertainment law. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 1987.

It was during practising law in the City of London that Ms. Demas first gained experience in copyright law. She returned to Trinidad & Tobago in 1994 and since then has been engaged in private practice at Trinity Chambers and has represented performers, record producers, composers, music publishers, artist managers and industry associations such as "The Shadow", "The Mighty Sparrow", "3 Canal", Mungal Patasar, GW Music Productions, Question Mark Entertainment, Jingle Writers and Producers Association of Trinidad & Tobago and the Business Software Alliance.

She is President of the Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) and was the Founding President of Caribbean Copyright Link (CCL). Ms. Demas has participated as a speaker at various music industry conferences such as MIDEM, Caribbean Music Expo (CME) and the Barbados Congaline Festival.

Alvin Daniell is a qualified Mechanical Engineer by profession, but has been involved in music almost all of his life. He is a composer, television presenter, and produced the popular TV programme "Calypso Showcase" from 1992 to 2000.

In the seventies he began composing calypsos and is best known for his joint compositions with Ray Holman of "Pan on the Move" and "Pan on the Run." He also teamed with Len "Boogsie" Sharpe to produce hits like "Rags to Riches", Mind yuh Business" and Misbehave" (COTT Pan song of the Year 1997). This year he co-wrote with Pelham Goddard "A Happy Song" that was played by Exodus, the Panorama champions. He has served as a National Calypso adjudicator from 1980 to 1990. He has also conducted several workshops on Calypso and Pan in Miami, the Caribbean and locally.

He was the Chairman of the Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 - 1999 and currently is the President of his own publishing company "MAJOR & minor PRODUCTIONS LTD." which represents the works of several composers. The company also produces Compact Discs, Music Fake Books, and manages artistes.

In 1995 he was recognised for his contribution to Culture in Trinidad and Tobago when he received a Humming Bid Medal (Silver).

With his unique, husky voice, his great stage presentation and dynamic entertainment, Anslem Douglas evokes positive crowd response as he performs to audiences internationally.

Anslem began his professional career as a calypso/soca artiste in 1988 and has rapidly emerged as a popular and dynamic entertainer making his own magical contribution to the culture.

Influenced by black American singers such as Lionel Ritchie and Stevie Wonder, Anslem began singing ballads in 1983. In 1987 he joined a popular soca band as lead singer and quickly became aware of the effect that his voice had on soca audiences. He gradually switched from R&B to soca and received the kudos of his many fans.

Anslem's 1997 carnival releases, Bois (When ah Dead Bury Meh Clothes) and I Walk With Mine (his own compositions), were produced by Klub Karnival, out of Trinidad.

For the 1998 carnival Anslem enjoyed enormous success with his composition Doggie (Who Let The Dogs Out), recorded at OSS Studios in Toronto, and acclaimed the best selling calypso/soca single for 1998.

A cover version of the 1998 release Doggie (Who Let The Dogs Out) by the Baha Men, rearranged with a more mainstream touch, placed Anslem‚s name on the Billboard charts in 2000. He received awards for platinum and multi-platinum sales for this version of Doggie and the song won a Grammy Award in the year 2001 in the Best Dance Recording category. The song is on the Rugrats in Paris soundtrack and has been used in every thing from TV commercials to the theme song by many baseball and hockey teams around North America.

Recent releases include Knocking Your Girl, We Going In Town, Kim - The Sequel, and for 2002, Work and Too Sweet.

With his considerable musical talent Anslem continues to excite audiences at major metropolitan centres across the globe.

Since 1986, Charles J. Sanders has served as Counsel to The National Music Publishers‚ Association, Inc. and as Senior VP of Legal Affairs and Counsel to its licensing subsidiary, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. In those capacities he has participated in drafting and advising on several important pieces of legislation (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and in bringing several major industry litigations (among them the Napster, Mp3.com and Compuserve Internet cases).

A member of the New York, California and Washington, D.C. bars, Sanders is a former Drenberg/Brown Copyright Fellow at New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1984). He currently teaches a course in "Ethics" as part of the NYU Graduate Studies Music Business Program conducted in conjunction with NYU Law School.

Sanders is also a senior board member of World Hunger Year, the music industry‚s foremost anti-hunger organization, and has produced numerous charitable musical events with performers including Bruce Springsteen. In addition, he has more than a dozen album credits as a musician, and is a voting member of the Grammy Awards organization, NARAS.

A frequent legal commentator in print and on CNN, Sanders is also currently working on a book on secrecy abuses by the U.S. Government, and is a founder and board member of The James Madison Project, a leading Washington, D.C. non-profit group which renders legal assistance to plaintiffs in Freedom of Information Act suits.

He is also an associate member of the U.S. National Ski Patrol.

Danielle Dieffenthaller is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical University and is the co-founder and managing director of the television production company Earth TV. As part of the Earth TV team she has produced and directed several music videos (Blue - 3 Canal, Chutney Bacchanal - Chris garcia, Big Truck - Machel Montano, Whan Bam - David Rudder, Puwah (the remix) - Nigel Lewis and Roy Cape, Wet Me - krosfyah, Aye, Aye,Aye - Allison Hinds, How Many More -John King and others).

She has also written and directed several television programmes that include the environmental series Ecowatch and Carnival features for pay-per-view television. She has also written and directed several documentaries including features for the Caribbean team at the Special Olympics in Connecticut and Austria. Ms Dieffenthaller is the producer, director and co-creator of the popular Caribbean series Westwood Park, which is now in an unprecedented fourth season. Ms. Dieffenthaller is currently developing another series.

Fiona McBlane started working for EMI in 1996 as a Licensing Assistant and her current role is as the Promotions and Licensing Manager for the UK office. Her duties include exploiting the EMI catalogue within the advertising and film industries. This entails contacting decision makers within both industries and actively pitching EMI‚s catalogue to them. Once a track has been chosen Fiona will subsequently negotiate a fee for the use and then issue a license covering the term, media and territory. In a fiercely competitive market it is essential to be continually making new contacts but also have a broad knowledge of all music genres and the support of a good creative team.

Guy Fletcher, together with long time writing partner Doug Flett, was the first UK composer to be recorded by Elvis Presley, who released three of their songs. Their first British hit was I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top by The Hollies. Cliff Richard won the European Song Contest with Power To All Our Friends, and recorded two further Fletcher/Flett songs - With The Eyes Of A Child and Sing A Song of Freedom. These were followed by a string of 12 top ten hits. Mr. Fletcher's songs have been covered by Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, and he has even had a Billboard number one country song with Save Me sung by Louise Mandrell.

Mr. Fletcher was born in St Albans and trained in music from his teens. He worked as a session singer for the legendary record producer Joe Meek. Together with his writing partner Doug Flett, he went on to discover and nurture a young Argentinean singer/songwriter, who two years later was launched upon the record buying public. This protégé, Chris de Burgh, is now an international star.

Mr. Fletcher has been a councilor of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, since 1984, and was elected Chairman in 1992. Under his continuing Chairmanship he has led the Academy to what is now one of the most significant and respected forces in the Music Industry. Always for the cause of the composer, Mr. Fletcher is a member of the board of the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and British Music Rights, and was recently elected on to the board of the Performing Right Society.

Graduate Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica ( 1979 ). Entertainment Attorney with experience representing performers, music producers, labels and other individuals and entities involved in media and music management, such as: Freddie McGregor, Super Cat, Bounti Killa, Yami Bolo, Toots & the Maytals, Spanner Banner, Capleton, Penthouse Records, Dubplate Music Publishing, Amar Entertainment Group, Grove Broadcasting Company Limited, and Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors & Publishers and many others.

Also Chairman of the Caribbean Music Expo and Caribbeat Entertainment Limited as well as co-founder and former vice-chairman of Grove Broadcasting Company Limited operators of IRIE FM.

Other activities include, rendering advice on government policy as member of the Entertainment Industry Advisory Council and provision of consultancy services in the establishment of JACAP. Now serving as a member of the Entertainment Board established within the Ministry of Tourism and Sport ( Government of Jamaica).

The history of calypso music will undoubtedly document the talented works of one of its most prolific singer/songwriters ever. This performer has made an indelible mark upon the music industry and earned the respect, some grudgingly, of all those involved. His songs have been described as prophetic, in-depth, charismatic, electric and immortal.

What the critics say:-

"Some people go back through the mists of time to find the legends, but more often than we care to acknowledge it or indeed recognize it, the legend is now. ... Rudder has had an indelible impact on the music of Trinidad and Tobago. He has created an atmosphere for Trinidadians to take another look at themselves and at their music. He has reached into the past and grasped the necessary roots while spinning the music into a new direction."

• Deborah John - Trinidad Express

"From Trinidad to the US to England, everybody seemed to agree on one point - Rudder's music was captivating, his lyrics intriguing and together they formed a package, a multi-dimensional experience."

• Extracted from a four page spread entitled King David in the Sunday Observer Magazine

"Rudder's characteristic fusion of words and music, sense and sound is a persuasive whole that takes the soul now, and works into the mind later. The magic of Rudder's best work is that it appeals to everybody at the sensuous level or the gut level first."

• University of the West Indies lecturer Kenneth Ramchand

Born in New York City, Andrew Sanders attended both Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, and Universitet København in Copenhagen, Denmark, before graduating from Connecticut College in 1982 with academic distinctions. After receiving a scholarship to attend Université de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, Mr. Sanders received his law degree in 1986 from Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, in New York City and, thereafter, attended the Institute Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1989, Mr. Sanders joined ASCAP as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel and has for the past several years served as ASCAP's Assistant Vice President of International Legal and Business Affairs. Prior to joining ASCAP, Mr. Sanders worked in several international private law firms in both Switzerland and New York City.

Mr. Sanders regularly lectures on issues regarding copyright law for seminar classes at The Cooper Union, New York University, and other colleges and universities. He also speaks frequently at symposiums sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United States Commerce Department and the United States Copyright Office, as well as at various entertainment law and intellectual property law conferences in Asia, Europe and the United States. Mr. Sanders has served as Subcommittee Chairman of American Bar Association specializing in the area of International Copyright Treaties and Laws.

Paul Spurgeon is General Counsel to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). SOCAN is a performing rights society. It operates on a not-for-profit basis and is administered by Canadian music creators (composers, lyricists, songwriters, and their publishers). SOCAN is part of a world-wide network of performing rights societies, ensuring that the musical works of Canadian and foreign creators are protected within Canada, and that those rights of Canadian creators are protected almost everywhere else in the world.

Mr. Spurgeon graduated from the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law (1975) and was admitted to the Ontario Bar (Law Society of Upper Canada) in 1977. Following his call to the bar, he served as a judges' law clerk to the Chief Judge of the County and District Courts of Ontario. Prior to joining SOCAN he was Legal Counsel to CAPAC (Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada, Limited). As counsel to SOCAN, his practice includes copyright law, communications law, corporate-commercial law and administrative law, appearing before the Copyright Board and the Federal Court of Canada and other public bodies including the CRTC and various Parliamentary committees. Mr. Spurgeon is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, Association Littéraire et Artistique Canadienne Inc. (ALAI), The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), The Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada, The International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, a member and Trustee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and is a graduate of the Western Executive Program of the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Mr. Spurgeon continues to represent SOCAN at various official functions in countries throughout the world including the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland and has a keen interest in international treaties and negotiations that are playing an increasingly important role in intellectual property.