Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce.36 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin Robert MadiganCopyright Alliance29 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia Merifield TripodiThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant26 filingsthrough 2014
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: copyright-alliance.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
SCI
6 filings
$270K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
110th Congress
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 801111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
S. 2913111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
S. 379111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3804111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3804112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1319111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: House Small Business Committee, Intern
18 filingsthrough 2014
Keith KupferschmidCopyright Alliance16 filingsthrough 2022
