Lau­ra Dowrich-Phillips

While the Copy­right Mu­sic Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (COTT) has be­gun a process of in­ves­ti­gat­ing a Span­ish ver­sion of Palance, the or­gan­i­sa­tion has been alert­ed of the group's re­make of an­oth­er so­ca song. Shey­na Wat­son, for­mer man­ag­er of Blaz­er Dan, who was mur­dered last year, said Co­man­do Tiburon al­so re­made his song Stages, which was re­leased in 2004. Palance, sung by JW and Blaze, which won Road March last year, al­so was post­ed on Youtube with over 50,000 views, goes by the name Vete Pa' La Verde. Wat­son said she found out about the song and the ac­com­pa­ny­ing video on Wednes­day evening when a friend post­ed it on her Web site.

She con­tact­ed Ju­nior Lett, me­dia li­cens­ing of­fi­cer at COTT, and alert­ed him about it. Lett said COTT reached out to the group yes­ter­day and was await­ing a re­sponse. COTT wants to find out if the group is reg­is­tered with a col­lec­tion agency be­fore pro­ceed­ing with any oth­er ac­tion. Co­man­do Tiburon is a group from Pana­ma, com­pris­ing four DJs. It is de­scribed as a Span­ish reg­gae group that sings reg­gae, so­ca and folk rhythms.