Rampersad, Dr. KrisThe University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago2015-09-212015-09-2131-Jul-11Rampersad, Dr Kris. "Intellectual Property Issues Strike…At the Heart of the Steelpan." Sunday Guardian. 31 Jul. 2011: B10. Print.https://hdl.handle.net/2139/40878In Trinidad and Tobago intellectual property issues have plagued the steel pan since most of the development of the steelpan resides unrecorded within oral and traditional knowledge. There have been some contestations of over the ownership of the steelpan, its music and the processes of manufacturing and tuning with claimants from outside of the region filing patents on various aspects of the steelpan design and tuning processes.©Trinidad Guardian Newspapers. This material is protected under Copyright Act of Trinidad and Tobago. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research.Intellectual property -- Trinidad and TobagoSteel bands (Music) -- Trinidad and Tobago -- HistoryMusical inventions and patentsSteel drum (Musical instrument) -- Trinidad and Tobago