Erich Collins Carey joined Round Hill Music as Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs in 2019. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects concerning the acquisition, licensing and legal protection of copyrights in the Round Hill catalog.

An experienced industry attorney, Carey joined Round Hill from the National Music Publisher’s Association in Washington, DC where he worked for four years as Vice President & Senior Counsel. During that time, Carey played a key role in the NMPA’s campaign before the Copyright Royalty Board, resulting in a 44% rate increase in mechanical royalties paid by streaming services after a fully-litigated proceeding against Amazon, Apple, Google, Spotify and Pandora. In addition, Carey helped secure a major victory against unlicensed streaming service Wolfgang’s Vault which was found to have willfully infringed close to 200 valuable NMPA member copyrights. Carey further provided legal support for the enactment of the Music Modernization Act and designation of the NMPA-backed Mechanical Licensing Collective by the US Copyright Office. During his tenure with the association, Carey also managed NMPA’s international portfolio.

Prior to joining the NMPA, Carey worked for six years as an associate in the preeminent Digital Media & Entertainment practice group in the New York City office of law firm Pryor Cashman, LLP. While at Pryor Cashman, Carey helped obtain a judgment shutting down pirate website Grooveshark and assisted in due diligence leading to the acquisition of the EMI recorded music and music publishing catalogs by Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Carey’s advocacy is founded on a personal passion. An active singer/songwriter, he has recorded two albums of original material, has twice earned honorable mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and regularly performs as a solo act and with bands the Constituency (NYC) and Rock Creek Kings (DC), which recently won radio station WEHM’s Real Band Battle and the Judge’s Choice award at the Fifth Annual Law Rocks DC charity-fundraiser.

Carey is a graduate of Amherst College and Fordham Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal.

Management Team

Josh Gruss

Neil Gillis

Richard Rowe

Amanda Siconolfi

Shannon Farley

Michael Lau

Marisa Baldi

Mark Brown

Erich Collins Carey

John Baldi

Steve Clark