Casey Rae
Casey Rae is an author, musician, and former music business executive, as well as a music policy and media professor.
Career
Rae is the former Director of 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, and emeritus faculty and course author at Berklee College of Music. Rae has written several scholarly articles on matters relating to intellectual property and new digital business models, and has testified before Congress on copyright.Rae has contributed music criticism to Dusted, Pitchfork and Signal to Noise, among other outlets. His first book, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll was published by University of Texas Press in 2019 and has been translated into seven languages. A second nonfiction work, Dead Dharma: The Grateful Dead and the American Quest for Transcendence will be published by Oxford University Press. He is also the author of Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age, published by Roman and Littlefield.