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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 3517 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend title 17, United States Code, to reform copyright laws relating to visual artists. · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Deferred registration

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Section 408 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Register of Copyrights shall issue regulations to establish procedures for deferred registration of pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works. An applicant for deferred registration under this subsection shall submit— to the Copyright Office by electronic means— an application for deferred registration of the work or group of works; and the applicable fee; and to the Copyright Office or a third party registry (as described in section 711), each corresponding deposit in accordance with this section or section 711, as applicable.
The date on which materials are submitted under paragraph
(2)shall be the effective date of registration, as described in subsection 410(d). An application for deferred registration under this subsection shall be considered an application for registration under this title with the Copyright Office for purposes of section 304 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 ( 19 U.S.C. 4343 ). At any time during the subsistence of copyright in a work that was the subject of a deferred registration under this subsection, the owner of copyright or of any exclusive right in the work may request, upon payment of the applicable fee, the examination of that work for registration under subsection (a). .
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