Lobbying Relationship

Client

Spotify USA Inc

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Lobbying firm

Forbes-Tate

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  • Issues related to ongoing licensing, copyright, intellectual property, and related issues in the music and technology industries; Issues related to anti-trust.
  • Issues related to anti-trust.

Duration: to

General Issues: Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Copyright/Patent/Trademark

Spending: about $600,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: Spotify AB (Stockholm, SWE); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Jeff Forbes Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP.
Libby Greer Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd.
Jay Driscoll Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Baucus.
Jeff Sadosky November 10-October 13 with Senator Rob Portman December 08-April 10 with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison January 05-March 06 with Senator Mike DeWine
Dan Tate Special Assistant to the President Clinton for Legislative Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Legislative Director, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin
Ryan Welch n/a
Rachel Miller n/a
Jeff Strunk n/a
Rachel Welch n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Registration

Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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