Casey Rae

Casey Rae (born May 23, 1974) is a music business executive, musician and cultural critic, as well as a technology, music industry and cultural policy property professor. Rae's commentary on the impact of technology on creators can be found in various media, including NPR,^[1] Washington Post,^[2] New York Times,^[3] Politico,^[4] Billboard,^[5] L.A. Times,^[6] Gizmodo,^[7] The Hill,^[8] Ars Technica,^[9] Sirius XM Radio^[10] and other outlets. Rae currently serves as Director, Music Licensing for SiriusXM, the North American satellite radio service. He previously held the post of Chief Executive Officer for the Future of Music Coalition, a national nonprofit education, research and advocacy organization for musicians. He is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Communications Culture and Technology graduate program,^[11] and faculty and course author at Berklee College of Music. Rae has written several scholarly articles on matters relating to intellectual property, new digital business models and copyright,^[12] and has testified before Congress on copyright.^[13] He has maintained a website, The Contrarian Media, since 2006, which publishes articles on issues ranging from the economics of cultural production^[14] to the surveillance state^[15] to esoterica.^[16] Rae is also the owner-operator of Lux Eterna Records,^[17] a Washington, DC-based record label specializing in art-rock, experimental pop and avant-garde music. Over the years, Rae has contributed music criticism to Dusted Magazine, Pitchfork and Signal to Noise.

Biography

Rae was born in the Northeast US and played in various bands in the 1990s, before taking a post as the Music Editor for Seven Days Newspaper in Burlington, Vermont. He subsequently relocated to Washington, DC area, where he currently publishes and teaches.

References

1. On Point. "Is Spotify Fair To Musicians?". NPR. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
2. Kang, Cecilia (January 20, 2012). "Federal indictment claims popular Web site Megaupload.com shared pirated material". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013.
3. Ben, Sisario (February 19, 2012). "Deals to Split EMI Spur Scrutiny and Criticism". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
4. Saleh Rauf, David (September 20, 2012). "Universal-EMI merger hinges on FTC approval". Politico. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
5. Rae, Casey. "Will the Copyright Alert System Break The Internet?". Billboard. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
6. Healey, Jon (October 1, 2012). "Radio pays artists to be its recruiters". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
7. Van Buskirk, Eliot. "Why 'Mastered For iTunes' Won't Defuse a Copyright Time Bomb". Gizmodo. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
8. Rae, Casey. "Selling Spectrum for a Song". The Hill. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
9. Brodkin, Jon. "Fighting Internet piracy: CES takes on SOPA vs. OPEN debate". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
10. "Future Of Music Coalition's Casey Rae On Media Matters Radio: SOPA Could Have "Chilling Effect" On Internet Expression". Media Matters, Sirius/XM. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
11. "Remixing the Future of Music CCT 636". Georgetown University.
12. Rae, Casey (2012). "Better Mousetraps: Licensing, Access, and Innovation in the New Music Marketplace". University of Maryland Journal of Business & Technology Law. 7 (1): 35. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
13. Rae, Casey. "Testimony In the "Moral Rights, Termination Rights, Resale Royalty and Copyright Term " Hearing". US House Judiciary Committee. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
14. Rae, Casey. "Anatomy of Collapse: Wall Street and the Music Industry". The Contrarian. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
15. Rae, Casey. "O HAI NSA". The Contrarian. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
16. Rae, Casey. "Jung the Mystic: an Interview with Gary Lachman". The Contrarian. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
17. "Lux Eterna Records". Retrieved October 1, 2013.