ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS

Lobbying for ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS

Filing 4th Quarter - Report

Reporting period

4th Quarter 2025

Oct 1 - Dec 31 · Posted Jan 16, 2026

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 10

Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Education, Dept of
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)
SENATE
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

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

Bills named in this filing 1

S 2587
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026

Lobbying activity 4

Copyright licensing and compulsory licenses Copyright protections and exceptions/limitations Copyright infringement Copyright registration Artificial intelligence and copyright 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 Appropriations issues related to public access to peer-reviewed journals

Education

Cash management rule Education technology S.2587 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (Open Textbook Pilot)

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