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 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 169 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 169

   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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2021

 Mr. Tillis (for himself and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   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.

    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:
    ``(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; 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) 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 had the 
        application been submitted before the last day of the covered 
        year.''.
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