Title: ARTS Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act
This bill 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.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4997 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4997

  To amend section 708 of title 17, United States Code, to permit the 
  Register of Copyrights to waive fees for filing an application for 
  registration of a copyright claim in certain circumstances, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2019

Mrs. Roby (for herself and Mr. Jeffries) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 708 of title 17, United States Code, to permit the 
  Register of Copyrights to waive fees for filing an application for 
  registration of a copyright claim in certain circumstances, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. 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 new subsection:
    ``(e)(1) 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; and
            ``(B) the competition described in section 3 of H. Res. 77, 
        as adopted by the 113th Congress.
    ``(2) With respect to a work that wins a covered competition, the 
Register of Copyrights--
            ``(A) 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 filed 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 the fee described in subparagraph (A) for 
        an application filed after the end of the covered year if the 
        fee would have been waived under that subparagraph had the 
        application been submitted before the last day of the covered 
        year.''.
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