ARTS Act
Bill: S.169 | Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas (R-NC)
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act
This act directs the Copyright Office to waive various copyright registration-related fees for works that win certain competitions sponsored by the Congressional Institute or established by Congress. To qualify for the fee waiver, the copyright registration application must be filed within a specified time frame, but the Copyright Office may waive fees for a qualifying work even if the application is filed outside the time frame.

[117th Congress Public Law 201]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-201
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To amend title 17, United States Code, to require the Register of 
Copyrights to waive fees for filing an application for registration of a 
        copyright claim in certain circumstances, and for other 
             purposes. <<NOTE: Oct. 17, 2022 -  [S. 169]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Artistic 
Recognition for Talented Students Act.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 17 USC 101 note.>>  SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Artistic Recognition for Talented 
Students Act'' or the ``ARTS Act''.
SEC. 2. WAIVER OF FEES FOR WINNERS OF CERTAIN COMPETITIONS.

    Section 708 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) <<NOTE: Definition.>>  In this subsection, the term 
`covered competition' means--
            ``(A) an art competition sponsored by the Congressional 
        Institute that is open only to high school students; or
            ``(B) the competition established under section 3 of House 
        Resolution 77, 113th Congress, agreed to February 26, 2013.

    ``(2) With respect to a work that wins a covered competition, the 
Register of Copyrights--
            ``(A) <<NOTE: Deadline.>>  shall waive the requirement under 
        subsection (a)(1) with respect to an application for 
        registration of a copyright claim for that work if that 
        application is submitted to the Copyright Office not later than 
        the last day of the calendar year following the year in which 
        the work claimed by the application wins the covered competition 
        (referred to in this paragraph as the `covered year'); and
            ``(B) may waive a fee described in subparagraph (A) for an 
        application submitted after the end of the covered year if the 
        fee would have been waived under that subparagraph

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        had the application been submitted before the last day of the 
        covered year.''.

    Approved October 17, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 169 (H.R. 704):
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 167 (2021):
                                    July 13, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.
                                                        Vol. 168 (2022):
                                    Sept. 19, considered and passed 
                                        House.

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