Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act Public Law 117–201 Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act 201 117–201 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2023-01-20 Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act ARTS Act 17067 117 2022-10-17 Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act [(Public Law 117–201)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 117–201. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo 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. [17 U.S.C. 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) 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.” .