MPAA’s $350,000 in Q2 2014 U.S. federal lobbying...

MPAA’s $350,000 in Q2 2014 U.S. federal lobbying spending was a slight uptick compared with $330,000 in Q1, according to lobbying disclosure forms. The deadline for lobbying disclosures was Monday. MPAA’s 2014 spending is down from 2013 levels: $730,000 (Q1); $490,000 (Q2 and Q3); and $450,000 (Q4), it said. Former House Judiciary Committee member Howard Berman, D-Calif., lobbied on behalf of MPAA via Covington & Burling, where he’s a senior adviser, it said. MPAA paid the firm $80,000 for lobbying on IP protection issues in Q2, it said.