Stm
Trade association for academic and professional publishers
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AI Overview
With $561K in lobbying spend across 32 quarterly filings, Stm is an active lobbying client. Their lobbying covers 5 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.
$561K
Total Spend
8
Years Active
1
Firms Hired
1
Lobbyists Deployed
5
Issues Lobbied
Spending Trend
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| Year | Lobbying Spend |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $81K |
| 2019 | $80K |
| 2020 | $75K |
| 2021 | $45K |
| 2022 | $40K |
| 2023 | $80K |
| 2024 | $80K |
| 2025 | $80K |
Issues Lobbied
Lobbying Firms
Lobbyists
What They Lobby About
These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Copyright/Patent, Science/Technology, Government Issues, Defense, Budget/Appropriations
- •The protection of copyright both explicitly and implicitly.
- •Grant requirements and public access to research results; open science; access to data referred to in regulation
- •Regulatory reform, including access to information, grant regulations and requirements, and public access to research results and copyrighted materials
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Data Sources: Senate LDA Filings
Last updated: February 2026
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