Johanna Devaney is an Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College she teaches primarily in the Music Technology and Sonic Arts areas and at the Graduate Center she is appointed to the MSC program in Data Analysis and Visualization and the PhD program in Music.

Dr. Claire McLeish works as a musicologist and copyright researcher for Third Side Music, an independent music publisher based in Montréal. She also offers forensic musicologist consulting, working on infringements, sample uses, and public domain issues for clients based in Canada and the US.

Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, merges musical analysis and cultural theory to explore representations of gender and sexuality in the lyrical, musical, and visual texts of popular music.