This boggled me for quite some time. Was someone there a fan of his work or something?

He did the music for all the Spyro games.

Here is an interview with Copeland:

YouTube - Copeland's interview of behind Spyro the Dragon music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc2gGycBXc)

It's not so boggling. He is a composer so he was probably looking for work at the time. And his name shows up on a composers network.