Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Let independent musicians negotiate together with major music platforms.

Generated from the official bill record, accurate to the metadata, but confirm important details against the full text.

• HR 8994 Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026

• Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

• Judiciary Committee
  House of Representatives

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

• RECORDING ACADEMY (FKA NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES)
  for RECORDING ACADEMY · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
• NVG, LLC
  for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC · New York · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
• RECORDING ACADEMY (FKA NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES)
  for RECORDING ACADEMY · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
• NVG, LLC
  for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC · New York · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  4 filings
• SENATE
  4 filings
• Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS)
  2 filings
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  2 filings
• Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
  2 filings
• Natl Endowment for the Arts
  2 filings
• State, Dept of (DOS)
  2 filings
• U.S. Copyright Office
  2 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.