• - Support for policies that promote strong and effective copyright protection in the U.S. and abroad, including in trade policy and emerging technologies - Support for policies that ensure fair compensation and rate standards for rightsholders across all music distribution platforms - Support of efforts to streamline the music licensing system so that it operates more efficiently and fairly for all stakeholders - Support for efforts to modernize the U.S. Copyright Office - Support for efforts to update the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - Support for policies that encourage Internet "intermediaries" (including ISPs, search engines, digital commerce platforms, domain registrars/registries, and advertisers) to take steps to curb music piracy - Discussion of global IP issues, scope of copyright, and digital trade - Support for the American Music Fairness Act (H.R.791/S 253) - Discussion of the impact of artificial intelligence on the music industry, and support for legislation creating a new federal right protecting voice and visual likeness against unauthorized digital replicas, including support for the No AI Fraud Act (H.R.6943)
• - Support for criminal justice and police reform - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act - The CROWN Act to prevent discrimination based on natural and race-based hairstyles - The EQUALITY Act - The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act - Support for Restoring Artistic Expression (RAP) Act

Duration: September 28, 2005 to present

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Arts/Entertainment, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Education, Budget/Appropriations, Media (Information/Publishing), Telecommunications

Spending: about $23,115,743 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2005: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Copyright Office, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Natl Security Council (NSC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), White House Office, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Copyright Office,, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Senate,, Education - Dept of

Related Foreign Entities: Bertelsmann AG (D-33311 Guetersloh, GMY); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 50%; Sony Corporation (Tokyo 141-0001, JAP); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 50%