Principal Investigators

• John Ashley Burgoyne (Faculty of Humanities) is the project’s scientific lead. He directs the Amsterdam Music Lab and is also a PI in the Dutch national InDeep consortium for explainable AI.

• Stephanie Steinmetz (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) works in Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research’s Institutions, Inequalities, and Life Course group, focusing on how digitalisation affects working conditions in the labour market.

• Martin Senftleben (Faculty of Law) directs the Institute for Information Law and works intensively on legal issues of author remuneration in the age of AI.

Research Team

• Melika Ayoughi is an AI specialist working on WP1.
• Berit Janssen is a scientific programmer and data scientist supporting the project.
• Katja Riabinina is social scientist working on WP2.
• Étienne Valk is a law reseracher working on WP3.

Industrial Partners

Three non-academic partners are supporting the project:

• the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) , representing the global music industry worldwide and offering expertise on individual rightsholder perspectives;
• Buma-Stemra , the collective rights organisation for Dutch composers and music publishers; and
• the Kunstenbond , an artists’ union offering access to individual musicians and text writers.

These partners are providing access to thousands of respondents for surveys and interviews, representing a variety of stakeholders across the music industry. They are also offering expertise on CDSMD and AIA issues and advising on selecting GenAI models and training datasets that align with their members’ concerns.