• Oversight and legislation related to digital broadcast content protection including intellectual property protection, oversight and legislation related to the digital television transition including DTV consumer education and unlicensed use of "white spaces" spectrum; H.R. 608, the "Digital Television Consumer Education Act of 2007;" H.R. 2566, the "National Digital Television Consumer Education Act;" H.R. 1320, the "Interference Protection for Existing Television Band Devices Act of 2007;" H.R. 1597/S. 234, the "Wireless Innovation Act of 2007;" S. 337, the "White Spaces Act of 2007;" In the Matter of Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices on Bidirectional Plug and Play (FCC CS Docket No. 97-80)

Duration: January 1, 2008 to October 1, 2020

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

Spending: about $155,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)