ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS

Lobbying for ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$400,872.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using C: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 12

Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Education, Dept of
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)
SENATE
State, Dept of (DOS)
U.S. Copyright Office
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 4

Copyright licensing and compulsory licenses Copyright protections and exceptions/limitations Copyright infringement Copyright registration Artificial intelligence Enforcement Special 301 WIPO LOC/USCO structure and appointment process

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Special 301 Trade and copyright U.S. and trade partner/country-specific bilateral trade relationships

Science/Technology

Public access to peer-reviewed journals Issues involving public access in Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Oversight of agency public access programs Publication costs

Education

Cash management rule Education technology

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.