ARTS Act

Bill: 116-hr-4997
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2019-11-08
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship

Elementary and secondary education

Intellectual property

Science and engineering education

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2019-11-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act</b></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4997 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act . 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. .