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[S. 169 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.169

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two


                                 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.

    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.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.